A recent study shows that interacting with "hasslers" who "create problems or make life more difficult" can contribute to faster biological aging Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

A recent study shows that hasslers, defined as “people in one’s close social networks who create problems or make life more difficult,” are often associated with faster biological aging A recent study ...

We have all met people who are so prickly and difficult that no one wants to handle them. But it has taken these contentious times to make this a common occurrence. Divisiveness makes normal ...

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Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...

The turbulence started just as Erin opened her laptop. A founder-turned-podcast-host, she’d been traveling for weeks—sponsorship meetings, recordings, partner dinners. Now, somewhere over the Midwest, ...

We all have people with whom we struggle, problematic people who seem to drain us of our energies, rub us the wrong way, poke, provoke, frustrate or trigger us. What’s really happening when we find ...

When I was in law school, people used to say: “If you don’t know who the class jerk is, it’s you.” Actually, they didn’t say “jerk,” but you get the point. And it rang true. It also gave me a quiet ...

People who make your life more difficult may be aging you faster, according to recent research. In the study, published last month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found ...

One of life’s frustrations is having to deal with difficult people. Everyone has to interact with them. There is no escaping these troublesome individuals. You can encounter them in virtually any ...