Rolling your eyes communicates contempt, disrespect, dismissal, annoyance, or a feeling of superiority, signaling that you find what someone said or did foolish, unimportant, or irritating, often as a passive-aggressive way to show strong negative feelings without words, though sometimes it can signal internal struggle or anxiety rather than directed negativity. Common meanings of an eye roll:
Contempt/Disdain: You have a low opinion of the person or their idea, seeing it as worthless.
Dismissal: You're brushing off what was said as silly or not worth engaging with.Annoyance/Frustration: You're fed up with the situation or the person's input.
Superiority: You feel you know better or that the other person is beneath you.
Passive-Aggression: A non-verbal way to express anger or disagreement when direct confrontation feels difficult.
The caregiver is often the recipient of eye rolls from their siblings, or others.I believe this to be a good reason to withdraw from the person giving out the eye roll. Even if you are the caregiver for that person. You do not need to accept this behavior.
If you are doing this to the person you are caring for, you may need to resign and get them help elsewhere.
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Really?
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That kind of thing. We get used to one another to the extent that we CAN let our eyes roll around our heads like so many marbles. Is it disrespectful? Yeah. But I mean, isn't that what we are saying? That we don't respect this situation. Hee hee.
This assumes that the person has full mental capabilities. if not, you are in a different ball game and probably need to let it go. If you can't then caregiving may not be a good role for you.
Alva's point about no longer being the loving family member, but the caregiver, is a good one. It can greatly change the dynamics of a relationship.
Of COURSE they roll their eyes at us. Don't we always have SOMETHING to say about EVERYTHNG they do? They are sick to death of hearing it, quite honestly. And when I speak to caregivers I always warn them that taking on this roll means they left the darling daughter, the beloved wife role BEHIND them.
This is just the fact. The eye roll is a GENTLE way, actually of saying "You think now you are in charge and you know EVERYTHING. Where once you LOOKED UP to me you now look DOWN and you want to direct my every single move. I have lost EVERYTHING and now I have lost also my darling wife who respected me, my darling daughter who counted on me to advice and wisdom, my darling sister who wanted nothing but my happiness. And I am stuck with YOU. Eyeroll.
This is just how it is. And if we are at our best and our strongest we can forgive, we can laugh even. But when we are low, we know that their losses are hideous, but ours are not to be sneezed at!
I can agree that they eyeroll, given or received, isn't fun. But it is mild compared to saying "You know, you make me feel an inch tall. You make me feel less than human. You make me feel the entire would would be better if only I WERE NOT IN IT." An eyeroll simply says "Oh, lordy. THIS again." To me, it's the least of it.
Anyone doing that to your face is essentially giving a not so subtle "F you" and you have my permission to respond accordingly.