How do you keep people at arms length and to stop digging into your personal business without offending them?
How do you keep people at arms length and to stop digging into your personal business without offending them?
My family is very nosy. I just tell them I won't talk about this topic. They try their tricks to make me talk. But there is silence. Then if they ask me if I hear, I answer with a flat face "yes, I do. But you can't hear, I already said that I won't talk about it". Silence works for me. It's not easy at all. But this way I win even my very very nosy mom.
People at work are also curious but not so pushy.
My family is very nosy. I just tell them I won't talk about this topic. They try their tricks to make me talk. But there is silence. Then if they ask me if I hear, I answer with a flat face "yes, I do. But you can't hear, I already said that I won't talk about it". Silence works for me. It's not easy at all. But this way I win even my very very nosy mom.
People at work are also curious but not so pushy.
I think there’s a difference when it’s family or a partner being nosy that can be annoying for sure but you know where you stand with them still , if it’s a colleague that you haven’t known for very long and they seem to be digging I think that crosses a different sort of boundary