Many of us struggle with trying to control things that are out of our control, like the way other people treat us and talk to us. We try to change them when their behaviors towards us have much more to do with their deep-rooted issues about themselves than anything to do with us. The real problem is the power that we hand them over the way we feel about ourselves, and it's a good thing that that is the problem because that is something we do indeed have control over. We just need to learn how to use it.