I guess you can't post the name of that other website on here?
No I guess you can't. A warning would have been sufficient. I think banning him for posting a link was a tad bit harsh. I'm sure he was not aware that was something that would get you the axe around here. I know I wasn't. It's a damn shame to lose someone like him.
Oh that is just the banter between these two, maybe even most guys from what I've seen. It is the child that lives in all of them.
Ok so onto serious stuff, how do you deal when you want to smack them over the head and tell them to grow up? Can you do that? In little spurts? Does it hurt or help? Some days I wonder.
"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means understanding that something is what it is and there's got to be a way through it."--Michael J. Fox
The biggest smack you can give `em is let them see just how well you`re doing despite their lousy treatment of you.
First thing a sulky kid wants is attention-you don`t give it-they go into tantrum-you still don`t give attention, beyond setting boundaries for you-eventually they wear themselves out and realise their nastiness isn`t working.
Well, um, that`s the theory.
If the going gets really tough you leave em to it,get your head out of there and go have fun.
And if you really must have revenge after that be really subtle about it. A long phone call with lots of laughter to a mysterious friend can truly p them off.
Mind you if you`re at the boundary stage just set them. I never regretted putting my fingers in my ears when I wanted H to stop ranting, and stopping his bad language too meant we`ve better convos now (when they happen).
Don`t try reason and logic though. That software has been deleted from the MLCer`s brain(In fact there`s not much left there at all...)
Its enough to say "That`s not acceptable to me" Why? "Because it just isn`t" Prepare to repeat ad nauseum.
