including ex boyfriends and soo on as well as close friends and family members and acquaintances too all people everyone really, I have tended to always retaliate against psychological and verbal attacks on my ego and have in the past become very viscious with my devaluing of other people and, while I never see myself becoming like a pushover or enabler of psychological and verbal abuse- I have been questioning if maybe there is a better approach ? Idk, I just feel like when people assume that you will not retaliate they become more abusive and that seems like enabling and even encouraging abuse to me- and whether it be psychological and verbal abuse or physical abuse all of these forms of abuse can damage your health and quality of life and these are just facts of being human and that most human egos require social approval to feel safe and to thrive
is there a better way than retaliation? if I am essentially anti bullying and pro equality and pro "everyone being cool and popular" and there not really being a popular crowd and all of that stuff and instead everyone all included loving themselves and other people- I know that not everyone is into this idea but I am and the world seems to be headed more in that direction- like even look at Twitter recently making the blue checkmark not being a sign of having a lot of followers that Elon imposed and now anyone can have that checkmark soo like in my opinion "the popular crowd" is kind of ceasing to exist in America, it still exists but it is just not as significant like no one really cares who is popular or who is not anymore- from my perspective https://nypost.com/2022/11/10/elon-musks-8-verification-fee-makes-twitter-worthless/
anyway, I am planning to try out some new ways of anti- encouraging psychological and verbal abuse, but what if relation is the only way to take a stand against bullying and give abusive people a taste of their own medicine so to speak, eye for an eye ? do any of you have suggestions for a better approach ? I end up apologizing for retaliating a lot of the time because my intention is for like world peace like I would very much prefer everyone getting along and behaving respectfully and lovingly towards each other but that is not the world that we live in
soo if my goal is to promote equality and anti bullying, how can I go about that without trying to set a good example by retaliating and then apologizing because this has been my go-to, and it might continue to be my go-to but I am always probably going to feel sad about it
suggestions ? (and do not tell me to do stuff that is going to enable and encourage abuse like being a doormat and forgiving everything like a Jesus type scapegoat figure, I forgive people as in I try to give them chances of showing that they are becoming less psychologically and verbally abusive but if not I will move on from that relationship)