Here are a few possible ways to phrase things to handle arguments and attacks:
- I never gave you the permission to tell me what to do
- You don’t have to fix me
- You don’t have to rescue me It’s my life, I do what I want
- I don’t need your pity
- Stop!
- Are we playing the blame game again? Can we grow up now?
- You are free to have doubts! I don’t!
- You are free to disagree if you want to!
- I am adult! I am free to think what I want!
- You are not my judge
- I don’t give you the right to judge me
- Are you trying to educate me, judge me, correct me, lecture me, fix me right now?
- Stop! I am no longer playing! Find yourself another victim!
- I can see you are upset. What is really happening in you right now?
- I am not here to babysit you
- Stop! I don’t have time for this
- Stop! Now is not a good time
- What weapon are you using now? Is it aggression? why?
- I have something to tell you! This conversation is not very interesting to me
- This conversation is quite boring to me – What can we do to make it interesting?
- Why are you really saying this? What’s your real deep intention?
- Disarm an opponent by simply repeating the same line a few times to anything they say.
