We all sometimes face a situation where the interlocutor begins to ask uncomfortable, tactless questions that we don’t want to answer at all. Yes, you don't have to. The right to privacy has not yet been canceled.
If this happens, the psychologist advises using one of these methods of avoiding uncomfortable questions:
- Give general information without going into specifics. For example, the salary is the same as everyone else, I will get married when I want, I work at an enterprise.
- Answer a question with a question.
- Reframe the sentence so that the answer to it is beneficial for you or the interlocutor understands that he is asking an inappropriate or ridiculous question.
- Pretend that the speech was not heard, and move the topic in a different direction. You can ask something from the interlocutor, tell the news or an interesting story.
- To portray that this topic is painful, it is not necessary to touch on it.
- Demonstrate a scientific approach to the answer. Start with a story about any facts, theories, studies on this topic. In the end, the interlocutor will no longer want to ask again.
- Reply with a joke.
- Make a compliment related to the topic.
- If the question is unpleasant, too personal, the psychologist, of course, gives the “green light” to directly tell the interlocutor about it. No need to be afraid to seem tactless, because the other person allows such behavior towards you.
The main thing is to answer calmly, without aggression, excessive sarcasm and ridicule.
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