Quote: No one else is even remotely willing to help me out, I guess I feel stuck with him
Sorry. I'm sure that's not the position you hoped to find yourself in...basically with him from necessity.
Quote: I know . . . and I know I don't do such a great job. But he can't ever express his opinion about something without telling me I'm absolutely wrong or yelling to get his point across and I just get so frustraighted.
At this point I don't even know what R goals I should have . . . . I haven't been able to come up with anything yet this time around. . . I read and keep looking through the DBing book . . but I am still having trouble making goals. . . especially when I feel that he is so difficult and unwilling.
Okay, so one problem is that he is difficult, unwilling, feels that you are wrong, and yells.
First suggestions: Try to analyze why he flies off the handle (and I don't mean...because he was raised that way, or he has a personality disorder. I mean, what is underlying his angry outbursts).
Second suggestion: Goal oriented solution to talking more constructively with him. What will you be doing or what will it look like when you can actually talk.
Emily, it sounds like your self-esteem is in the toilet. Are you still looking after yourself and focused on your happiness?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
