Hi Fuzzy. Yes, I feel the same way, in terms of my reaction varying from case to case. I used to internalize maybe all of my hurt feelings - still do to an extent - but over time, I felt that I was sort of doing myself a disservice by allowing people to get away with their belittling or undermining or even outright insulting me, with their view that I would simply accept it. So, if I'm able to disregard it, I will, after all people are just people, I'm a person too. But if there are times when I feel a verbal expression of my feelings are required, then that's what I need to do for my own sense of self respect. You see, my self esteem/self worth have never been the best, even after years of trying to build them up, but my self respect is not poor, and so that's something I try not let get undermined. People think they can ride roughshod over everyone but they can't.

Anyway, those are some of my thoughts about that and thanks for letting me share them here, good Fuzzy. Thank you.