SeahorseTrebleWhat is the best way to respond to "You have an answer for everything", "You always have to be right", or "You always need to have the last word"?
pruwybenYou gotta admit this post is a little ironic.
I’m aware of the irony 😅
I guess it stumps me a lot when people criticise my very communication itself, and I feel like it freezes any ability to respond in a constructive way. “You have an answer for everything” makes it seem like any answer I could give to that would just be met the same way, so it’s like I need to think outside the box in order to even know how to respond to that, or if a response is appropriate at all.
Well I think it can definitely be a reflexive response by someone who just doesn’t like being contradicted, but it could also be a feeling of “you aren’t trying to understand what I’m saying, you’re just trying to think of a way to counter it”. So it could be worth taking a moment to back up and taking a deeper look at what the person is trying to say.