How To Manage The Maddening Questions!

Strategise discreetly to outwit the offenders.

- Arshia Sheikh

Uncomfortable questions need to be managed well. The way you will handle it with confidence and positivity the more it will be annoying to the nosy person. Handle them, ignore them or give an accurate answer. Choice is yours.

• Why aren't you married yet?
• Why are you still single?
• Why don't you consult a doctor?
• It is too late for getting pregnant?
• When you will have another child?
• Your daughter needs someone to play with...! And the saga goes on and on...

People are little curious and sometime they irritate another person by asking unnecessary, unwanted and uncomfortable questions. We all are surrounded with little too inquisitive relatives, neighbours and friends.

Some people do ask questions which they won't ask otherwise.

They know that these questions need to be avoided but to embarrass or irritate others they will always ask some uncomfortable questions.

Sometimes, you will feel Not expected from you! or Seriously! Did you just ask that! It is necessary to have a control on oneself, because the moment you feel worried, or stressed about how you should deal with these uncomfortable questions, it is rather difficult to know what to say or what to do. Maybe, sometimes people like your in-laws, any stranger or anyone who don't know where to draw a line, can ask uncomfortable questions which you don't want to answer. You can't ignore them.

For that you need to prepare yourself. Here your aim is not to get rid of this situation or the negative thoughts and the feelings. The goal is to change your retaliation.

We know that life doesn't come as we suppose it to be. It always remains what it actually is. The way we muddle through it is what makes the real difference. The five things we can't control are: