tonystark29
@tonystark29@lemmy.world
I like making things. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. I don’t see failure as failure; I see it as progress. Interests include space/rockets, keyboards, and other niche things.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
At one time, yes we were friends, and I believed that we had mutual respect. That all changed one random day, and he just lost all respect for me.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
As time goes on, I’d rather not think about him at all, but for the rare times that I do, I would want to laugh it off, because his way of bragging is actually kind of funny.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Correct
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
He has dyslexia.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
I think I can almost remember the exact day that he shifted. We were talking about our previous girlfriends and he very openly bragged that he’s slept with better looking women than I have (I’m not like that). He kept talking about it over and over that day, I could see he was getting a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Before this, he was a different person. Overall good morals, good friend for the most part, rarely put me down.
It was very sudden.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
I guess I could have, eh. I did end up getting in trouble for it. I had a research job that they fired me from.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
You’re right. It’s hard not to take things personally sometimes, but I guess learning to not care so much about what others think is something that can improve with practice.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
This is only the second or third time that I’m talking about it with anyone else. I didn’t know it was this serious.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
I tutored as well.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Would you report a valued friend for the same thing? Honestly, I’m curious. Maybe I’m out of touch.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Well, ok, but you’d think he’d at least talk to me first? If he genuinely had an issue with it, I would value our friendship enough to stop.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Well, at the end of the day the students I did homework for still need to write their tests and exams on their own. They still earned their grades.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
The irony is that the students that I did homework for graduated, and I didn’t
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
And I will have a good life :)
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Exactly. If he approaches me in person, I’m not going to pretend he’s my friend and stroke his batshit crazy ego, I’m going to treat him neutrally but not entertain him.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Yeah I see what you mean. I want to be the bigger person and just ignore him.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Thank you. Spot on.
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