For fun, share about a time where you gave someone a taste of their own medicine (like the old sitcom trope). I’ll start:
I think it’s healthy to help people have an opportunity to be on the receiving end of their own behavior.
I have done it at least twice for rude disrespectful behavior. It was received in two different ways but worked well both times.
When I did it to a spousearound the year 2002, (he had stayed out til 4am when bars close at 1. So the next week I did it.). When I got home, he was standing there and instead of an argument , he unexpectedly hugged me and said, I get it. (He had been unable to sleep and worried about where I was and what could have happened to me.) Neither of us ever did it again.
Around 1999, when I was living with another teacher at age 23, my roommate who was extremely negative, even badmouthing when I watched Judge Judy while I got my stuff ready for my workout class everyday (we only had 3 channels back then 😅). I knew telling her to stop would fall on deaf ears, so a friend and I decided on a strategy where I would say the exact words she uses during her favorite show (Who wants to be a millionaire, lol) .
I did it and The roommate was shocked! She couldn’t handle that I was being negative! She asked why are you being like this? I carried on for awhile and then eventually revealed to her that I was using her Exact words to give her an idea of what she’s like to be around at home. She denied it vehemently, and stubbornly refused to admit that she behaved like that. I said, Well Ask T because it was she and I who hatched the plan together, and that’s why I specifically used exact verbiage that you used earlier today.
She never did it again. 😂