Negotiating with disrespectful behavior only devalues you. Instead, walk away like a boss, you don't need any disrespectful person in your life. You need people who are aware of their behavior and choose not to cross the line.
When you get betrayed by a close friend, relative or any person at all, the best thing for you to do is to maintain silence and make the situation vague by not trying to elicit explanatory justifications from the person. They know what they did. They’ve calculated the consequences and implications and still went ahead to betray you. When it comes to people like this, you don’t look for answers as to why they revealed their disloyalty.
In fact, you should be happy they’ve shown you their true nature and intent. Let your silence make them uncomfortable to the extent they sabotage themselves with overthinking. The exposure of their infidelity towards you should be seen as a clear reality of how they value you. Don’t chase answers that isn’t needed.
Some people genuinely want you to settle because, on some level, they’ve realized they did so themselves when observing how you carry yourself and how high your standards are. They encourage you to get on their level and suggest that your expectations are unattainable.
people who talk about the world ending must truly be the most delusional category of humans alive. the earth existed before and after you + every human in existence. it always self-corrects. you’re just another era…