Confrontations You Wish You Could Take?

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02 Jun 2018, 5:01 pm

Have you ever had any conflicts you wished you could resolve, or perhaps initiate for a specific gain?



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02 Jun 2018, 5:04 pm

All the time
Like the time my former roomate would play his video games with his friend so loud as to intentionally wake me, I wish I just threw his console out the f*****g window.
Whe. A formee boss fired me, I wish I verbally confronted her.
The list goes on..



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03 Jun 2018, 11:39 am

I've never been good at confrontations, I just go into shutdown and non verbal, but since college when faced with a situation my feelings get so built up after a while I can't take it any longer and just explode, people have physically made fun of how I walk and I had pains (bad athritus) that day I didn't do anything about it.
Once a teacher told me off for not being able to learn as fast as the other students.
I didn't say anything.:/



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03 Jun 2018, 11:47 am

I had a romantic relationship which went terribly, to a point I have been severely hurt
I wish I could talk this out but I am unsure how much that SO even cares

Anyway, I also tended to explode in academy. It was an unpleasant experience, but those people I exploded on kind of deserved it



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03 Jun 2018, 12:09 pm

Pillar wrote:
I had a romantic relationship which went terribly, to a point I have been severely hurt
I wish I could talk this out but I am unsure how much that SO even cares

Anyway, I also tended to explode in academy. It was an unpleasant experience, but those people I exploded on kind of deserved it



Similar to this in that the last time I can remember having a wish that I'd been able to engage in a confrontation with someone properly was at the breakdown of my last relationship. She was very upset about something not related to me and I failed to pick up on her hints and signals that she was upset and that she needed a bit of space to get her head right. In the end she started ignoring me (which was fairly harsh on me but what she had found out and what she was upset about, which I didn't know at the time because she hadn't told me, was pretty severe so I don't hold it against her) and as I didn't know what was going on I just left where we were. We talked about why she was upset and we tried to go back to normal but it was awkward and she just chucked loads of feelings at me and how she didn't understand how I didn't know what she was feeling and didn't understand why I'd felt the need to leave. I couldn't tell her how I felt, I just froze because I didn't want an argument but she couldn't get over it and ended it a few days later. I wish I could have explained how I felt and maybe we'd have had an argument but understood each other better and survived it. Possibly could have saved several months of being heartbroken.



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03 Jun 2018, 12:53 pm

I hate conflict. I don't like getting into it with people because they like to turn it around on me and make me the bad guy. There are some people who thrive on creating conflict. I can do without those types of people invading my work and place of worship.

I would love to tell off some former bosses, coworkers, classmates, and current parishioners at my church, but I live in a small town full of gossip queens.



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10 Jun 2018, 9:23 pm

ladyelaine wrote:
I hate conflict. I don't like getting into it with people because they like to turn it around on me and make me the bad guy. There are some people who thrive on creating conflict. I can do without those types of people invading my work and place of worship.

I would love to tell off some former bosses, coworkers, classmates, and current parishioners at my church, but I live in a small town full of gossip queens.


I also love conflict, but when it comes to friendships I would expect much more than creating conflicts



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10 Jun 2018, 9:56 pm

Yes. Some of them, anyway.

Not because I'm afraid of it, or that it didn't mattered much. Never because I don't have the energy for it.

It's because it's all about words and wording. :x

I can confront a person easy if I have something to show and do, but not much about something to say. That's where I screw up.
I know how to intimidate, I know how to make a presence, I know how to negotiate, I also know how to compromise.

But play words to some extent, not really.
And guilt holds me back half the time.


Also I prefer not to start any conflict. Even if I'm confident that could 'win', some of them aren't really worth a damn.


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10 Jun 2018, 10:28 pm

I wish I could get justice and tell off abusive family members and ex coworkers that bullied me.

But usually I dissociate and systematically plan things instead. Or move on to whatever suits me best next as some people aren't worth it.

Smiling can literally ruin your enemy's day, as sometimes the best revenge is enjoying life.


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11 Jun 2018, 9:09 am

My enemy cringed when she found out how well I've been doing on my job. She can't stand to see me happy. She loves it when I'm miserable.



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11 Jun 2018, 9:35 am

I agree with the two posts above... the best revenge is to thrive.


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11 Jun 2018, 9:37 am

I "third" the motion.

I often feel, "Why beat a dead horse?"