Relationships with relatives are completely different from those with other people. They know you throughout your life, together you have gone through a lot, and your communication takes place on a different level.
Instructions
Step 1
Respect your family, this feeling plays a huge role in relations between relatives. In any situation, do not forget that these people have known you all their lives and together you have gone through many difficulties. Despite some points in views on which you fundamentally disagree, try to maintain respect for others' opinions.
Step 2
Be tolerant. Patience is another important aspect of family communication. Conflicts can happen on a daily basis until someone finally becomes a little more tolerant of other relatives. Try to take into account problems at work, personal troubles, and other factors that affect the mood of your family members. Understand them, put yourself in someone else's place, and communication will become much more pleasant.
Step 3
Learn to forgive. What can not only be heard from the lips of relatives in rare moments of anger. You have to choose - to be offended all your life and stop communicating, or to forgive and continue to live on.
Step 4
Speak openly. Feel free to express your grievances in the face of your family members. Naturally, there should be no aggression in your words. But always think carefully about whether to start a scandal - perhaps your small complaint can be held back until better times, because it can be taken more seriously than you expect.
Step 5
Meet more often. It so happens that work, friends and other circumstances alienate members of the same family from each other. Break the cycle by offering to gather for a holiday or a regular weekend. Introduce new traditions (for example, celebrating every birthday among your relatives).
Step 6
Don't forget the older generations. There is nothing worse than lonely old people abandoned by their relatives. Visit your grandparents, and often drop in for tea with your mothers.
