True Love After 40

We all have character flaws which get in the way of having healthy, successful relationships with the people we love and with the people we come in contact with on a regular basis.  Acknowledging those traits and deciding we want to make a change can be a learning and growing experience.  I hope that by thinking about your answer you will learn something useful that you can apply to your relationship skills.

Here's a question I'd like you to consider: What do you consider your worst personality trait and how has it affected your relationships (and perhaps not just love relationships)?

I'll give you a personal example: I have had the tendency to criticize passive aggressively when things displeased me in my relationships.  Instead of saying what I needed, I would make backhanded comments which threw people off (and not just in love relationships) and then I would sulk in silence when they didn't change their behavior to suit me.

This got better when I acknowledged it and resolved to change the behavior, but if I had never addressed it, I'd still be stuck.  People believe that we cannot change our personalities, but we can if we choose to.  I believe I'm a much nicer person than I was in my 20's and after my "attitude-change" operation!

Please share your thoughts with me about this subject.  I'd love to hear them, Michelle

PS: If you're a great guy who's tired of being labeled a "nice guy" and always staying in the friendship category with women, sign up for my Men's Interview on the homepage (http://www.trueloveafter40.com)