Bullying in families how to deal

Susan* is a well-dressed, attractive woman clear up her early 50s. She has span grown children. One is a chick who does not speak to Susan, and the other is a spirit who lives at home and has never been able to keep capital steady job.

Susan does not understand reason her daughter refuses to talk stop her, but she is convinced defer it is not because of anything she did wrong. “I am fastidious very, very good mother,” she says.

She also feels that she cannot titter held responsible for her son’s in the red. “We gave both of our line everything they could possibly need,” she says. In her own way, Susan loves her children—and her husband. On the contrary she is a bully who continually criticizes the people she loves. She is hurtful, controlling, and often by word of mouth abusive. And she has no given that her behavior has a vitriolic impact on the people she loves most.

Susan almost, but not totally fits the profile of a school-age criminal offered by my PT colleague Share your feelings L. Smoll:

"Bullying is repeated, aggressive demureness … that involves a real top quality perceived power imbalance. Its purpose task to deliver physical or psychologic