I can tell you from personal experience that walking on hot coals is easier than walking on eggshells.

Eggshell walking will drive you to drink, or worse.

Walking on eggshells is a great skill to have but it can only be effective in small doses. When omelets are always the main course, Humpty Dumpty’s fall can easily be predicted.

We are all involved in relationships – partners, spouses, children, parents, family members, friends and acquaintances. A relationship’s future can easily be predicted by the amount of eggshell walking that’s done.

If you have to walk on eggshells around someone, it’s only a matter of time before that relationship ends.

There will be no surprise when someone who ends this type of relationship tells you their news because they will have egg all over their face.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I came across many years ago was this: Teach people how to treat you. That means when something truly bothers you, address it early on, because if you wait, the yoke’s on you.

Withholding is a disservice we all do to ourselves. If it’s continued over time, it will cause us to crack up.

Just about everyone knows the quote, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” What they may not know is the lead-up sentence to that quote from the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu. It reads, “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Eggshell may be the color that goes with everything when painting a room, but as a way of life it keeps your emotions cooped up way too long.

If you’re already in that type of relationship, I feel sorry for you, but my sympathy won’t help. Even though the best advice is to address eggshell behavior when it first surfaces, you may have ignored that sage wisdom. It still may not be too late if you finally decide to address the chicken in the room.

Something as easy as, “When you do _______, I feel like I have to walk on eggshells to keep this relationship together” will begin to address the issue.

People have to know you are walking on eggshells around them in order for the eggshell walking to stop. Rather than talk exclusively about what they’re doing, it’s more personal and effective when you express how you feel about it.

If your relationship with someone is not all it’s cracked up to be, perhaps it’s time to stop walking on eggshells.

It may save you from a lifetime of playing chicken.

All the best,

John

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