How To Tell Someone To Stop Complaining: The Best Step By Step Guide!
Do you like it when someone constantly keeps complaining about everything that is going wrong in their lives? Of course not! But do you still have to tolerate them only because you do not know how to tell someone to stop complaining? You will not be facing this problem after reading this blog because it will cover all relevant points in detail. It is a difficult job but not an impossible one. So, let us begin the journey to silence a chronic complainer naturally!
We all know that complaints are annoying because of their inherent negativity. But listening to the criticisms aimed at you is even worse. Complaints never make you happy or improve you but only take you in the wrong direction. That is to say, they irritate, pressurize and burden you, which keeps pulling you down. Actual problems or constructive criticisms are always welcome but not tiresome, unnecessary, and avoidable complaints! Life is too short for complaints, and most certainly, you need to get a move-on. So, you need to find a way to silence those complaints and find peace within yourself. But do you know how to respond when someone complains? Are you confused about how to tell someone to stop complaining?
It is a million-dollar question which we will look into in the coming paragraphs. Before knowing how to tell someone to stop complaining, first, you need to understand the concept & background of complaints. You have to study & have a grasp over the psychology of a chronic complainer. You also have to ensure that you are not a chronic complainer yourself. It’s because if you are one of them then you cannot stop others from complaining.
How To Stop Complaining In A Relationship (11 Surefire Ways)
If you want to know how to stop complaining in a relationship, you should start listening to this article because we are going to go over this subject in detail! If your marriage is struggling because you complain about your family all the time, you might have an issue with your family, enjoy gossiping, or just appreciate a complaint or two to the right person.
However, your marriage may be better off with you not complaining about your family or any complaint you may have. This is not to say that you should not be honest; always be honest in marriage. Let your partner know you are there for him or her; just make sure you are calm when you respond to your husband rather than arguing like a married person.
Hearing a constant complaint or non-constructive argument in your communication can cause stress and make it difficult to carry on a conversation with the one you love. Create a more peaceful environment for your relationship instead. Make communication easy in your home. Your partner will thank you for that.
How To Stop Complaining In A Relationship (11 Real Ways)
1. Listen to your partner’s needs
If you aren’t great at listening, now is the time to start. You may wish to read a few articles on the subject so that you can understand the importance of listening. It’s a crucial element of a healthy relationship, so make sure you know how to do it right. You should do more than just “hear” what your partner is speaking about.
Active listening involves feedback and productive conversation between two people, not arguing. Instead, you join in on what you hear from your partner. If you truly care about what is being said in your relationships, you will learn to enjoy the time you spend talking to one another. You’ll love just being able to talk about what happened in your day.
2. Count your blessings
Be grateful for the things you have in this life. You can purchase a gratitude journal or just use a notebook and pen to write down your blessings. You should think about what positive blessings you have in your life and the relationships you have been blessed with. There are surely plenty of them to be happy about.
3. Practice “stop thinking” exercises
A stop thinking exercise is when you catch yourself doing an action, like complaining, and you stop that behavior. You might just recognize your problem with complaining and then tell yourself to say something positive instead of complaining as usual.
4. Look at the big picture
In the big scheme of things, does your complaint truly matter? Assume it does not because, more often than not, it does not matter. It’s better to think about the positive parts of your relationship. Don’t say, “You stink! Go take a shower!” Say, “If you go take a shower, maybe we can cuddle up afterward and watch a movie!”
5. Remind yourself
Some people who face conflict with certain issues, like a problem with complaining, wear a rubber band around their wrist to remind them of their problem. This way, they can slap it when they catch themselves doing it, and they’ll stop this behavior quickly lest they get slapped with a rubber band.
6. Decide what you can and cannot change
Often, if you look at things like the Serenity Prayer, you will realize that we can only affect the things we can control, not what is out of our control. We should only focus on the things we have some control over and not complain in our relationship about things that we cannot control because it is pointless and not worth the effort.
7. Look at the other point of view
You should think about the point of view of your partner. Can you see the world through their eyes? What do you think they are thinking about this problem? Do they see things your way? Can you see their side of things? If you can’t be empathetic, you might want to talk to them about what you feel and think about.
8. Discuss your concerns
Discuss the things you worry over with your partner. There’s no reason to keep these things bottled up inside of you because your attitude and tone will reflect how you feel. This means that your partner will know something is up any way you try to spin things.
Think about the positive side of things, too. You might be upset because your spouse burned dinner when you told him to check on it several times. You may not feel like he listened to you as he should have, which makes you angry. Instead of dropping the subject, you continue to complain about the ruined dinner for weeks to come.
This isn’t very helpful for your relationship. Instead, what if you just let your partner know that in the future, you want them to listen to you when you suggest that they check on dinner before it is ruined for the evening. Then, drop it! Focus on fixing the problem rather than rehashing it over and over again. That is not useful or productive!
9. Journal
There are many kinds of free journals you can find online and print out. Alternatively, you can just use a notebook and pen to write out your thoughts on paper. The important thing is to get it out on paper and to get it out of your mind. This way, you won’t complain so much, because you will have gotten all your worries out on paper.
If something is still bothering you and you need to talk to your partner about it, you should discuss it with them in a positive light. You might even use your journal to write down your thoughts on the subject. You might list the reasons that this is important to you and why you are bringing the issue up to your partner on this day.
Then, you might also use your journal to name all the solutions you have for the issue. If you come at the problem from a solution point of view, you are much more likely to have a positive outcome than if you are to just gripe about the problem over and over again with no solution in sight.
PHILIPPIANS 2:14 – How to Stop Murmuring & Reap Blessings
“(12) These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; (13) Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (14) And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, (15) To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (16) These are murmurers, complainers , walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”
The Apostle Jude warned of concerns rising in his day (i.e. the gnostic heresy , which undercut the foundation of Christ), and each of us can look within ourselves to see that inclinations in this direction within ourselves are rooted out. But we need not suppose that all the things Jude spoke about must be found among brethren of our fellowship. In our own Bible Student classes of today, the same things will not be so manifest. Yet we all need to take care of course.
The Apostle Paul also warned the elders at Ephesus that after Paul’s parting, “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” (Acts 20:30).
The Apostle Peter similarly warned brethren of his day, that as there were false prophets among the Israelites, so some would appear teaching Christian principles and contrary to the sweet teachings of Christ. These influences would be harmful to the New Creature ways, and lead to the Truth being evil spoken of.
Revelation 22:11 says, “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”
GOD allows experiences to manifest the heart attitude of every child of GOD. It is for us to follow Christian principles in each experience, and thus “be righteous still, and … holy still.”
Revelation 1:12‑15 pictures the “feet” members of the body of Christ as “fine copper.” The Apostle John saw the “Son of Man” (Jesus) clothed with a garment down to the feet, but saw the bright shining feet, suggesting the character of God’s people.
Copper represents perfect or justified human nature. This copper appeared “as if they burned in a furnace” (Revelation 1:15). It calls to mind the prophecy of Malachi 4:1, “The day … shall burn as an oven.” In a prophetic sense, we have been in that day since the return of Christ (his invisible presence, Parousia) in 1874. Thus “the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17).
In the present ending period of the Gospel Age, God allows trials to purge us , as a furnace of affliction, so that the copper of our justification may shine resplendent in the light of faithful and tested loyalty to GOD.
Murmuring indicates we are out of harmony with our lot. First it expresses dissatisfaction ; then perhaps pride and covetousness , leading us to rebel against God’s providence . As roots of bitterness lodge in our hearts and minds, disappointment and dissatisfaction with our environment and our circumstances of life allowed by GOD in His love and mercy, will spring up and growth to DISASTER, in our spiritual life.
Dear friends, if that very circumstance had not been the very best the loving heart of our Heavenly Father could devise for our edification and upbuilding in Christ Jesus, He would not have permitted that circumstance to occur . Shall not the God of all the earth do right? Of course He will.
The word “do” here is one of the smallest words, but one of the most forceful! It is not that we are to do some things that are hard and murmur about the rest; it is not to be satisfied with some things and be dissatisfied with others.
The murmuring ‘domino effect’ will continue until a break is made, and a change is effected. Once this weakness of character becomes a strength of character, it means the test has been overcome. (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Suppose we see a man carrying a corpse along the street, making a public display of it, we’d be mortified! Perhaps we’d ask him the reason and probably someone would phone the Police! Suppose this man replies that he must, day after day, carry this corpse with him, with all its loathsomeness. Would we not think him insane? But do some of us do this metaphorically?
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