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If Your Ex Is Committed To Disagreeing With Everything You Say, Stop Arguing

Unapologetic Parenting

English - January 09, 2021 03:00 - 7 minutes - 5.32 MB - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
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Don’t argue with someone who has decided that they are never wrong and you are never right.

When exes disagree with us, it is often part of the power that existed during the marriage, through the divorce, and into the present. They are set on winning by always being right and making us always wrong. They refuse to concede.

Constant disagreement is also a way to bait us into giving them attention. They then use that attention to further provoke and disrupt us.
They use disagreement to make sure we’re thinking about them, thinking about how to respond to them, how to beat them, constantly.

Exes with narcissistic traits often disagree for the sake of disagreeing...to provoke, to punish, to get attention, to work to wear us down.

The best remedy is to choose to disengage. Choose to stop arguing. Unless the issue involves something major like a surgery for the child or other matter that requires mutual consent, there is no point to discussing or arguing over any disagreement.

Let them do their thing and leave it at that. Let them be wrong. Let them believe you are wrong and let them feel right...alone.

Our peace of mind is far more important than trying to prove a point to someone who is committed to never agreeing. They may not even be mentally capable of seeing outside of themselves. Arguing with such people accomplished nothing except harming ourselves.