These are dead giveaways that someone is ungrateful.
Many people struggle to express how grateful they are to others, but that’s very different to not being grateful to begin with.
Here are 9 ways to spot a person who is eternally ungrateful, no matter if you bend heaven and earth to help them.
1. They’re never satisfied.
No matter how well things seem to be going for them, and how many goals they meet, targets they achieve, or things they get their hands on, they’re never happy.
There’s always something else they’re chasing, something else that’s not right, and another reason why their life is not good enough.
Whilst having goals is normally a positive thing, they don’t know how to take a minute to be happy and thankful for everything they have achieved.
Instead, they are forever setting their sights on something else.
2. They are filled with envy.
They look at the good things that others achieve or have and they wish that for themselves. But it goes beyond looking up to someone for inspiration.
They compare their life unfavorably to others and this envy consumes them so that they cannot be happy with what they have.
3. They’re bitter.
It doesn’t take much for them to get angry. They might be resentful about something that happened in their past, or get upset about whatever’s happening in the here and now.
4. They have a major sense of entitlement.
Ungrateful people have often suffered in the past, but that trauma can create an idea in them that they’re entitled to an awful lot from the world, and from others.
5. They’re always asking for help from others.
Most of us tend to struggle to ask other people for help. We don’t want to put people out.
But, ungrateful people, or people who aren’t thankful, will happily ask you to help them.
There’s always something they desperately need your help with. They seem to feel that they’ve earned your help, so don’t have to thank you for it.
They might have done one nice thing for you once, and expect ten in return.
6. If you can’t help them, they won’t let you forget it.
And if you genuinely can’t give them the help they’ve asked for, you won’t be allowed to forget about it in a hurry, whatever your reason.
7. They don’t genuinely care about others.
Consistent ungratefulness is often linked to selfishness. The world revolves around them, and they think it’s only natural that others should do things for them.
So, they don’t tend to empathize with other people’s suffering or needs. It’s simply not their problem.
8. They don’t have time for you unless they need something from you.
It’s only when they need something from you that they pop up. They won’t suggest meeting up just to catch up, and they won’t text just to see how you are. They take you for granted.
9. They play the victim.
They’re not just pretending to be the victim. In their mind, they really do consider themselves to be worse off than anyone else.
If you ever complain about something, they’ll be able to offer up several examples of when they’ve had it worse. And, if you try to offer sympathy or advice, they won’t take it.
