If people stay with you long enough, they learn how to manipulate or persuade you.
Those that act like they do not know how to, choose not to. They decide it is not worth the trouble.
Even children with limited resources, quickly learn what works and what doesn’t with their guardians.
The problem in most relationships is not a lack of knowledge of what influences the other person, it is an unwillingness to do it, for some reasons – justifiable or not.
People show you who they are. Many times, they even say it in plain language. Whenever there is high friction in a relationship, it is because in spite of knowing who the other person is, we treat them like who they are not.
Many relationships break down because one party was consciously approaching the other based on who they want them to be, not based on who they are.
There is wisdom in being with the kind of people that flourishes with what you have to offer, not the people that need to change to accommodate what you have to offer. Even love does not cover for such a gap.
– Osasu Oviawe