When you raise your standards, people around you react because it threatens them or forces them to change too. How seriously they take your new standard depends entirely on how you respond to their pushback. Your consistency is the test.
This is you. This is somebody else. You do something. Let's say that's action A, they have a reaction. Let's call that B. So you Action A is a standard, a new standard you have. That standard gets tested consciously or unconsciously, sometimes even by people that love us the most. I'm not just talking about toxic or narcissistic people. Sometimes the people that love us the most push back on new standards we have because it threatens them. It forces them to grow or reevaluate something they think it makes them feel bad about themselves. So they test it with B. How seriously we are taken in any change in human dynamics depends on C, our reaction to their reaction.
