I applaud your approach to dealing with social bullies, yes that’s what they are. I can see you are a committed Christian man. However “turning the other cheek” is not always the best approach. You can walk away and disconnect your self from them. If they try to cancel your own Personel believes. A last resort is to take the fight back t…
I applaud your approach to dealing with social bullies, yes that’s what they are. I can see you are a committed Christian man. However “turning the other cheek” is not always the best approach. You can walk away and disconnect your self from them. If they try to cancel your own Personel believes. A last resort is to take the fight back to them. I know this is hard. I credit two years at a Catholic boarding school, with toughening me up and learning how to defend my self verbally. These day any one who wants to socially attack me had better be well armed, because I will be when I retaliate. Look for ways to sharpen your debating skills and gain self confidence
Thank you for your thoughtful post. You are correct, sometimes I need to fight back. I guess it depends on the relationship I have with the person I’m interacting with. It feels most natural for me to take the gentler approach and generally that’s my default response and it’s been successful for me as I’ve been told by people in my community that my voice has influence.
However, I do have experience in dropping the gloves so to speak - and I’m not afraid to punch back hard when necessary. I don’t believe I communicated that in my original post.
Thank you again for your thoughtful post and I will get my hockey stick and gloves out and be ready to brawl if need be. :-)
I applaud your approach to dealing with social bullies, yes that’s what they are. I can see you are a committed Christian man. However “turning the other cheek” is not always the best approach. You can walk away and disconnect your self from them. If they try to cancel your own Personel believes. A last resort is to take the fight back to them. I know this is hard. I credit two years at a Catholic boarding school, with toughening me up and learning how to defend my self verbally. These day any one who wants to socially attack me had better be well armed, because I will be when I retaliate. Look for ways to sharpen your debating skills and gain self confidence
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your thoughtful post. You are correct, sometimes I need to fight back. I guess it depends on the relationship I have with the person I’m interacting with. It feels most natural for me to take the gentler approach and generally that’s my default response and it’s been successful for me as I’ve been told by people in my community that my voice has influence.
However, I do have experience in dropping the gloves so to speak - and I’m not afraid to punch back hard when necessary. I don’t believe I communicated that in my original post.
Thank you again for your thoughtful post and I will get my hockey stick and gloves out and be ready to brawl if need be. :-)
Have a great day!
John