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How can I stop someone from hurting me when they don't care about my feelings?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 5, 2015
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The best decision in my opinion would be to cut them out of your life. People who hurt you and who don't care about your feelings do not deserve a place in your life. Life is too short to let people treat you this way.
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Profile: Ingrid9
Ingrid9 on Nov 9, 2014
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From my own lived experience, if I get the sense they do not care, they aren't worth my time anyways. I would just walk away and try to move on as best as I can.
Profile: silverMusic21
silverMusic21 on Jul 1, 2015
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you should try to care a little less about such people , you're completely awesome and you deserve better person in your life .
Profile: parched
parched on Nov 3, 2014
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Assuming you've tried to work things out with the individual without success, the next thing you can do is apply the first rule of self-defence: don't be there. Distance yourself from the individual hurting your feelings if possible (even if they're a family member, significant other or close friend, this should still be done if the issues can't be worked out. It may seem like a big step, but life goes on.). If it is highly undesirable or impossible to do that, then the next available recourse is to exert as much control over your own feelings as possible: if what they're saying is not true, then balance its affect by reminding yourself of that fact; spend more time around the warm, helpful people in your life; independently do things that you're proud of to increase your self-esteem. If you grow stronger as a person, you won't care about the lies that others say to you, and will be able to take the truths they say about you and use them to grow even stronger.
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Anonymous on Sep 1, 2020
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Often times, the hardest thing one can face is finding that some people do not care about us, leading to low self-esteem and emotional pain. Unrequited love is very hard to tackle, but the first step to deal with such a moment in my opinion would be to try to ignore the person who doesn't care for you. It might be hard, but can sometimes be the only way. This is of course harder in cases when the hurtful comments and words are delivered by loved ones such as a parent, best friend, child, spouse, or even a sister or sibling. People can be in a marriage lasting for years but this long time does not necessarily mean that someone cannot hurt you or give you a hard time in a relationship with a boyfriend or marriage. Children often cannot process hurtful behavior but it might be a good opportunity and a good thing to have them read a story so that they know that hurtful behavior is not ok and that compassion is a strength we all need to incorporate into our beliefs and values. The world needs more kindness and the ability to be kind is something we all can contact one another with, but if you think someone is hurting you for no reason, especially if this unsupportive behavior is going on for weeks or months, it might be a good idea to consider moving on and avoiding people who do not acknowledge your feelings.
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quietEyes9899 on Apr 8, 2018
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The solution is to stop caring about their own feelings. At first you might struggle and feel guilty but emotional detachment works. It frees you, it strengthens you. You achieve this by ALWAYS doing whats best for you or what benefits you eben st the cost of them. Your first priority should be you. Slowly your mindset will shift. You will completely stop caring about them ,your focus will be on you. Then you will truly be free. Funny enough, they will sense a shift in you, that you no longer care, then they'll try to manipulate you or pretend to care. But you never look back ,you keep looking after you and enjoy their newfound grovelling and trying to get emotionally close to you attempts. It works.
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Mathilde on Oct 7, 2014
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The answer is within you. If the person won't listen or care, if you have tried and asked them to stop acting hurtfully towards you, and yet they will carry on their actions, in this case it is up to you to not be hurt by them anymore. If you take control over what affects you, either by shutting it out and leaving, or by receiving it differently and with a different angle, you have the power to not be hurt anymore.
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Anonymous on Jun 21, 2015
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Sadly, you can't stop someone from acting a certain way but you can control the way you react to it, the way you feel about it. It's very important to ask yourself why is it you get hurt by what they think, when this person doesn't care about your feelings? If this person keeps hurting you and does not care about you, I don't think they deserve you in the first place.
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Tumb13weed on Aug 16, 2015
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There are two steps to it. They are difficult, yes, but not impossible. The first one is forgiveness. The second, is detachment. If they have hurt you in the past and continue to hurt you, chances are you'll react only because you have not forgiven them. Maybe they have done something quite grave; maybe they hurt you really bad. You ought to forgive them for your own good, not theirs. By forgiving them, you'll feel a lot lighter. Next, detachment. Chances are you have enough on your plate without having to deal with the pain. If a person clearly does not care about you, it will help you a lot if you let them go, detach yourself. There are a lot of other people who will like you, respect you, care about you for who you are. You'll find other people, better people. If you're the one getting hurt, you're the one who can get out of it. Forgive, and let go.
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Anonymous on Jan 20, 2016
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Get away from them as much as you can because you're damaging your spirit the more that person is around you.
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