What strategies do you use to ensure people around you don't have to tolerate your less desirable traits?

Why do people come back after losing you, even when you gave them every chance before?
Have you ever encountered someone ruined, broken, needy, dependent, envious and brutish?
What is it like to experience the presence of a patient’s spirit after they pass away, and how does it affect your feelings about working in a nursing home?
What is one specific feeling that tells you when your self-respect is being challenged?
How does choosing to trust someone after they've broken it affect your own self-respect?
How can I change for the better so my best friend and my fiance can stop teaming up against me in arguments?