The corresponding game among women in “threadbare”. Often genteel, they take pains to be shabby. They see to it that their earnings for good reasons never rise much above the abstinence level.

1. Threadbare – Life Games
Transactional Analysis

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Life Games
• All games have an
important and probably
decisive influence on the
destinies of the players
under ordinary social
conditions.
• But some offer more
opportunities than others
for life long careers and
are more likely to involve
relatively innocent
bystanders.
• This group may be
conveniently called Life
Games.

4. Kick Me
• This is played by men
whose social manner is
equivalent to wearing a
sign that reads “ Please
don’t kick me”.

5. Threadbare
• The corresponding
game among women in
“threadbare”.
• Often genteel, they take
pains to be shabby.
• They see to it that their
earnings for good
reasons never rise much
above the abstinence
level.

6. Threadbare
• If they have a windfall,
there are always
enterprising young men
who will help them get
rid of it, giving them in a
return shares in a
worthless business
promotion or
something equivalent.
• Colloquially, such a
woman is called
“Mother’s Friend”.

7. Threadbare
• She is always ready to
give judicious Parental
advice and living
vicariously on the
experience of others.
• Their WAHM is a silent
one, and only their
demeanor of brave
struggle suggests “Why
does it always happen
to me?”.

8. Threadbare
• An interesting form of
WAHM occurs in well
adapted people who
reap increasing rewards
and successes, often
beyond their own
expectations.

9. Threadbare
• Here the WAHM may
lead to serious and
constructive thinking,
and to personal growth,
in the best scene, if it
takes the form “ what
did I really do to
deserve this?”

10. References

11. Thank You

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