{"product_id":"dealing-with-difficult-people-david-wiseman-9798180796998","title":"Dealing with Difficult People: At Work, in Family, in Friendship, and in Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDifficult people take over more than just conversation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey take over your attention, your confidence, your evenings, your workday, your family gatherings, your friendships, your peace, and live in your head long after the encounter has ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDealing with Difficult People\u003c\/i\u003e, David Wiseman offers a practical, clear-eyed guide to recognizing difficult patterns and responding without losing yourself inside them. This is a book about boundaries, clarity, self-respect, and the quiet discipline of choosing your responses rather than being dragged into someone else's drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDifficult people appear in many forms: the boss who keeps you anxious, the colleague who makes work harder than it need be, the family member who turns every limit into betrayal, the friend who drains more than they give, the partner or ex who keeps the old pattern alive, the neighbor, customer, stranger, or online voice who pulls you toward a version of yourself you don't want to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book helps you slow those moments down. It shows how to recognize emotional pressure, avoid circular arguments, use shorter responses, protect your energy, and understand when patience has become self-abandonment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sections covering: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstanding Difficult People\u003c\/b\u003e - how difficult patterns form, why certain people pull us off balance, and how to recognize the early signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Difficult Boss\u003c\/b\u003e - surviving power, pressure, criticism, fear-based management, and workplace authority without losing your judgment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDifficult Colleagues and Employees\u003c\/b\u003e - handling unreliable, undermining, volatile, or draining people at work while keeping the issue professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDifficult Families\u003c\/b\u003e - navigating parents, siblings, old roles, guilt, obligation, loyalty, and the emotional scripts families keep repeating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDifficult Friendships\u003c\/b\u003e - recognizing imbalance, competition, emotional overuse, loyalty traps, and friendships that no longer fit the life you are building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDifficult Partners and Exes\u003c\/b\u003e - understanding control, circular conflict, jealousy, emotional fog, practical contact, and the difference between repair and repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEveryday Difficult People\u003c\/b\u003e - dealing with neighbors, customers, strangers, online conflict, and small encounters that can still take too much of your day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoundaries, Recovery, and Clarity\u003c\/b\u003e - learning how to use shorter responses, keep boundaries you can actually hold, recover after difficult encounters, and become harder to pull off balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in David Wiseman's thoughtful, practical style, this book is for anyone who has spent too long explaining, rescuing, apologizing, absorbing, or replaying conversations that should not have taken so much of their life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe goal is not to win every argument, but to stop losing yourself inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Wiseman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180796998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d","brand":"David Wiseman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173587132671,"sku":"9798180796998","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d09b623a-ad8d-45eb-b80c-d898ece22ace.jpg?v=1788955374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dealing-with-difficult-people-david-wiseman-9798180796998","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}