If there are any energy vampires and emotional blackmailers in your life, you may find the following defences useful:
• Don’t dump your trash on my desk.
• Who said I had to explain myself to you?
• If you want to fight, find another enemy.
• What if I made the demands on you that you make
on me?
• I won’t lift a finger to solve the problem you have
caused.
• I was not born to be the ear to your chattering
mouth.
• No, I don’t owe you a thing.
• You are several years too late to play that trick on
me.
• How evil of you to try to drag me down to your low
level.
I think that nos. 4 and 8 are particularly effective: if only I had been able to say this to the victimisers in my life...it is too late for me, but perhaps other people will find this list useful.
• Don’t dump your trash on my desk.
• Who said I had to explain myself to you?
• If you want to fight, find another enemy.
• What if I made the demands on you that you make
on me?
• I won’t lift a finger to solve the problem you have
caused.
• I was not born to be the ear to your chattering
mouth.
• No, I don’t owe you a thing.
• You are several years too late to play that trick on
me.
• How evil of you to try to drag me down to your low
level.
I think that nos. 4 and 8 are particularly effective: if only I had been able to say this to the victimisers in my life...it is too late for me, but perhaps other people will find this list useful.
