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<blockquote data-quote="Bluemoon" data-source="post: 382114"><p>Desensitized maybe? But really, what could you do anyway that you didn't do?</p><p> </p><p>To my limited experience, if they know they have inflicted an emotional wound in you, then it adds fuel to their fire. It's ammo. If he can't hurt you with his words then there becomes less "gain" in saying them.</p><p> </p><p>He does sound like my difficult child. Whatever warning I give him, he has to throw it right back at me, but just a little bit worse.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not proud of this, but one time he pushed me to the point when I was laying out consequences to where I told him he was lucky I didn't kill him for something he had done. He told me, "You can't kill me! If you kill me you will go to jail!" I said, "Son, you are absolutely right, I would go to jail....but you would still be just as dead!"</p><p> </p><p>Of course, then I explained that I would never kill him and that I loved him and wouldn't want to live myself without him in my world...but the look on his face as he had thought about what I had said, and when he really got it was pretty priceless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluemoon, post: 382114"] Desensitized maybe? But really, what could you do anyway that you didn't do? To my limited experience, if they know they have inflicted an emotional wound in you, then it adds fuel to their fire. It's ammo. If he can't hurt you with his words then there becomes less "gain" in saying them. He does sound like my difficult child. Whatever warning I give him, he has to throw it right back at me, but just a little bit worse. I'm not proud of this, but one time he pushed me to the point when I was laying out consequences to where I told him he was lucky I didn't kill him for something he had done. He told me, "You can't kill me! If you kill me you will go to jail!" I said, "Son, you are absolutely right, I would go to jail....but you would still be just as dead!" Of course, then I explained that I would never kill him and that I loved him and wouldn't want to live myself without him in my world...but the look on his face as he had thought about what I had said, and when he really got it was pretty priceless. [/QUOTE]
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