Hi, I have been a lurker for a while here. I have never gotten well with people. Most of the time I overstep our boundaries or the person I am getting along with just ends up taking advantage of me. This has been a problem running in my family for atleast 3 generations and now, quite frankly, I am tired of it.

My issue is that differentiating between healthy and unhealthy relationships is just too hard and using “rules” to figure it out is just too ambiguious. For example, joking about a person can be either a bonding experience in friendship or just plain bullying. Telling where the line switches between the two is a bit too hard.

So, what I am saying is, can someone please give me some resources for how to interact with people. Not just pamphlets or articles but rather full on courses on how to talk, how to handle/read body language, what people mean by what they say, how to recognize when someone is taking advantage of you. Things that go in depth about this sort of stuff.

Everything related to relationships, society and speech. This can be courses, books, reasearch papers, someone’s hobby project, wiki, etc. Articles that go in depth about it are fine as well. Thanks in advance.