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Old Oct 28, 2011, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Caretaker Leo View Post
If you can pull this off by speaking quietly and calmly, my suggestion would be to respond to her with something like the following the next time she brings up the baby or makes any other rude comment:

I appreciate your concern "girlfriend's name". I made what I felt was the best decision at the time and will continue trying to make best decisions for myself and my son.

Keep it short and sweetly stated. After you make your statement, walk away. You are taking good steps to make your future better. You are looking for a job, planning to start school in a few months - and you are contributing to the household by helping around the house. Take pride in those steps!

Change your statement words as needed for the attacks. Keep them short and keep repeating them every time she tries to put you down. This is the "broken record" approach. One of those tricks I learned while raising my sons which resulted in them quitting certain rants and behaviors. Since she sounds like a child, it just might work!



Thanks. I've been doing that anyways. It does help too. Just hope everything else starts looking up for the better too. I think the reason I do get depressed is cause I'm stressing myself out to help my dying husband with things he needs even though I hate him so much. I feel like if I treat him nicely he'll feel horrible about the things hes done to me in the past. So I feel like stressing about everything is making me depressed. How would I go about handling that.