Welcome to Best to the Nest. I'm Marjorie Puntit with Elizabeth Reese. And this is Best to the Nest. Did I hear you say that? Yeah, you did, but that's the title. And it's important to just reiterate what the name of the podcast is. And the purpose of Best to the Nest is we love to talk about how to bring our best selves home. It's a journey, guys. Yeah. We are on it. And this is why I have a little

surprise for you, Elizabeth. Do you ever read Real Simple magazine? Oh, I used to. Okay. I've read it in a while,

though. This month in Real Simple, uh, the headline, why you should treat your family like strangers.

Yes. Mm-hmm.

Can I read you just a little bit of it?

I want to hear.

Because everybody, this is what best to the nest is all about.

So this is from Real Simple Magazine.

You are the soul of forbearance with the prattling colleague in the next cubicle.

You shine, thousand-watt charm on the eye-rolling teen who bags your groceries.

Then you arrive home.

Your son has left the ketchup out again.

Hellfire reigns upon him.

It is a truth universally acknowledged.

We are often most impatient, angriest, and least compassionate toward those we should be kindest to, our supposed loved ones.

Partners, parents, Sibs, kids, all can receive an outsized portion of our ire.

We feel free to be ourselves around those we are closest to, says Joyce Martyr, a Chicago-based

psychotherapist with refresh mental health, but it's not good when we don't offer them

basic kindness and respect.

After all, snapping may be satisfying in the moment, but a pattern of it can corrode relationships,

say experts.

Well, duh, experts.

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