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Ever had this happen to you? You ever try to explain a bad situation that happened to you, only to have that same person give unsolicited advice and then try to make you out to be the villian (thinking in their mind that they were right to "tell you the truth")? I did, and in fact, I've been dealing with the after-effects of this person's "help" - I really let it suck too much energy out of my life. Anyone else had this type of thing happen to you? | |
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If you mean talking to a person who then makes what you are trying to share a doorway to make it about them, their opinions and experience - then yes ... I have a friend that does this with all most anything you try to tell him
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I know a lot about emotional vampires. Sorry you had to go through this. MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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eaglebear4839 said: You ever try to explain a bad situation that happened to you, only to have that same person give unsolicited advice and then try to make you out to be the villian (thinking in their mind that they were right to "tell you the truth")? I did, and in fact, I've been dealing with the after-effects of this person's "help" - I really let it suck too much energy out of my life. Anyone else had this type of thing happen to you?
I love how people use the excuse "the truth" when they've been completely tactless, rude and/or offensive. A `free pass` to say what you want!  |
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Yes. But its never what they actually say but what they do. | |
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MIGUELGOMEZ said: I know a lot about emotional vampires. Sorry you had to go through this.
there's the words right there - "emotional vampire" - it's plain as day to me now. I have to guard against this kind of thing now and then, as I'm sure we all do. | |
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eaglebear4839 said: MIGUELGOMEZ said: I know a lot about emotional vampires. Sorry you had to go through this.
there's the words right there - "emotional vampire" - it's plain as day to me now. I have to guard against this kind of thing now and then, as I'm sure we all do. Isn't it crazy how someone can suck the energy out of you just by entering a room. It's nuts.  MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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I know someone with an obnoxious habit;
Whenever you tell her ANYTHING having to do with ANY medical condition - be it an ingrown toenail, asthma, cysts, you name it - she knows ALL about it because she herself had it or suffered it and can tell you how it's cured. A typical conversation could go like this; "Yesterday Bob went to the doctor because he fractured his ankle playing tennis." "Oh yeah that hurts. I know 'cuz I once broke both kneecaps, and they had to operate on me then put me on bedrest, yadda-yadda-yadda..." 
It is so damned obnoxious that we don't tell her anything like that anymore. Once she had the nerve to say that she had cancer in the uterus and that her birth control pills cured it.  By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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PurpleJedi said: I know someone with an obnoxious habit;
Whenever you tell her ANYTHING having to do with ANY medical condition - be it an ingrown toenail, asthma, cysts, you name it - she knows ALL about it because she herself had it or suffered it and can tell you how it's cured. A typical conversation could go like this; "Yesterday Bob went to the doctor because he fractured his ankle playing tennis." "Oh yeah that hurts. I know 'cuz I once broke both kneecaps, and they had to operate on me then put me on bedrest, yadda-yadda-yadda..."
It is so damned obnoxious that we don't tell her anything like that anymore. Once she had the nerve to say that she had cancer in the uterus and that her birth control pills cured it. Someone very very close to me is the same way. MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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MIGUELGOMEZ said: PurpleJedi said: I know someone with an obnoxious habit;
Whenever you tell her ANYTHING having to do with ANY medical condition - be it an ingrown toenail, asthma, cysts, you name it - she knows ALL about it because she herself had it or suffered it and can tell you how it's cured. A typical conversation could go like this; "Yesterday Bob went to the doctor because he fractured his ankle playing tennis." "Oh yeah that hurts. I know 'cuz I once broke both kneecaps, and they had to operate on me then put me on bedrest, yadda-yadda-yadda..."
It is so damned obnoxious that we don't tell her anything like that anymore. Once she had the nerve to say that she had cancer in the uterus and that her birth control pills cured it. Someone very very close to me is the same way. Yeah, she's a piece of work. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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