TJ Walker shares what to do when people keep breaking promises. His advice: stop asking them to promise anything, and shift how you interact with them. Keep things cordial in groups, but skip the one-on-one time.
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But it keeps on happening. Promises keep on being. Well, if someone keeps breaking promises, don't ask them to promise anything. I mean, we all have different layers of connections to people in life there, and we everyone's had some falling out with someone. I don't care who you are. I mean, I've had friends before. They used to socialize with a lot, and they did strike me as just too unwilling to compromise. Everything always had to be about them, and I just stopped socializing with them one on one. There are people I still when I see them, we have mutual friends. If I see them at the same big party and there's 30 other people, I'm more than happy to go chat with them and catch up and find out what they've been up to. They're amusing, they're fine.