Jordan Peterson - The Responsibility To Your Partner and Children

Psychology Professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson underlines the main responsibilities as a parent and as a significant other or spouse. Don't let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.

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[Razear]

"Honey, go clean your room and tame your dragon."

[TheExtremeCube]

Love and respect your children as human beings that need guidance and help them become fully functional in the world

[AexisRai]

The difference between how two people in a relationship should deal with each other to resolve the issues in that relationship in private, and how they should present themselves in that relationship to the public, seems similar to the difference between how a country of people deal with their politics and resolve disputes internally vs how they internationally represent themselves.

In both cases there's an institution that performs a purpose, internally it is at war with itself in the constant struggle of improving itself, but outwardly that institution is a symbol and should act like a unified thing.

[the-chillian]

I _did_ marry a barbarian witch. And I _was_ an idiot, a fact I will never attempt to deny. At least one valued adviser told me point blank that she didn't really love me, and I should have listened. I guess I can come up with many reasons, that felt compelling at the time and might serve as excuses, and I had a very peculiar set of social and psychological forces driving me, but that doesn't change the basic idiocy of my thinking.

There was one point when I very clearly ought to have broken it off, and gave it serious consideration. What stopped me? Nothing but embarrassment. The embarrassment of having to tell everyone so, after I had told them all about my engagement. For that weakness over a very brief period of emotional pain I've paid handsomely over the past decades.

Mind you, I don't discuss this in public. My therapist has to hear about it, and her sister and I enjoy a kind of mutual loathing society privately between ourselves, but that's it. (Her sister is great. I couldn't have managed the past several years without her.)

[lumpyfishgravy]

This post has brought it back to mind: the idea of my ex-wife taking any advice from me about manners is laughable. She considered herself by far my superior. Yeah, I was right, she was a narcissistic snob.

And then to answer the obvious accusation: no, I didn't know that when we married. She changed, got bitter. Very bitter. That's what narcissists do.

[morgangreen]

Jordan "Barbarian Witches" Peterson

[torindavies]

You have a responsibility to your partner to clean your room

[joshuaanderson]

Just give up on love and forget about the other person. Do what makes you happy, leave out the rest.
If your partner makes you unhappy dont leave them, forget about them and the problem and do something else. If they have a problem with you then they can figure out how to deal with it themselves.

[davidgetui]

IS LIFE MEANINGLESS OR HAVEN, T WE FOUND MEANING YET AND HAVE TO LIVE IN AGONY BECAUSE OF IT

[erwindee]

I disagree. How you treat your partner *should be specific* to your partner. I'm with my third girlfriend now and I've treated all three of my girlfriends differently. There's just no way how I treat one would work with either of the other two. All three of them are just far too different for a one-size-fits-all treatment from me.

[redlipmarketing]

Duck me ... People are so en difficult we're all better of by ourselves.

[kaiserhoff]

Responsibility is a two way street.
Peterson needs to wake up on this one.

[yohami]

"don't let your kids do anything that makes you dislike them" is a bad principle

[jenschueller]

He is easily taken out of context with the things that he says at times.

[yuirick]

I dislike these common-sense lectures. There's not a shred of proof to back any of his statements up. The more I see, the more I notice that.