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eskielover · Mar 20, 2024 at 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by RDMercer

Oh heck.... ArmorPlate isn't THAT tough.

Kinda like an M&M. Hard boundary, but soft inside.

"Can't see the truth from their viewpoint"....

This is something that drives me crazy. When you are gaslit so, so much, for so long, you get pretty defensive about "truth"

I'm left going.... "How can this be truth from my VIEWPOINT??? IT'S JUST TRUE!"

Example:
"Dad, quit bible thumping and just talk and be accountable."

"I don't bible thump, and I've never failed to be accountable, or take you back no matter what you've done to me. Just like in the story of the Prodigal Son. You're always welcomed home."

"Dad.... That is bible thumping, and you haven't accepted any accountability."

"I don't say anything about the bible. Quit putting words in my mouth."

Sadly when parents are like that it is better to say nothing than to respond. I only kinda liarned that when my parents were alive....but when my mom would hang up on me when I irritated her, I never called her back. Left it that way till she sorted things out in her own mind then she would call in a week or so as if nothing ever happened. I just let her deal with her stupid attempts at manipulating me that never worked. She never learned though & kept trying all her life.