What to do, when drama is no longer entertaining?
Hi. Your niece sounds a lot like me! I’m quite a bit older, though, and I’m sure people still feel I’ve not even come close to reaching my potential. It sounds to me like what you are trying to do is fundamentally change a person. She’s young, but she’s not that young. That’s her personality you’re talking about. I dealt with things that way when I was twenty-two, and the bad news is I still deal with things that way today. My guess is I am going to deal with things that way when I’m eighty, too. The good news is that I do deal with difficult (or just plain annoying) things (not quietly and with dignity, but I sort it out), have a good life that works mostly the way I want it to, and it takes a lot more to make me feel like something is difficult now than it did seven years ago. Realize that that’s what has to change in order for her to “become more stable” — not how she deals with difficult things, but what she perceives as difficult. Maybe she’s not trust fund material. All the thin
