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Article: Learning to not give emotional responses.(Carolyn Hax)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 24, 2009
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Adapted from a recent online discussion.
Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend of four years sent me an online message while I was sleeping that called me by a different name. What's a mature response to something like that? "Excuse me"? Letting it pass? Seeing if he says anything? It was jarring, to say the least.
-- D.C.
D.C.: I think you just say, "Uh, my name is (blank). Is there something we need to talk about?"
It also depends on whose name he used. I can't be the only one with siblings, friends and spouse(s) who call me the wrong name, each offender more than once.
Or maybe I am just peculiarly nondescript.
-- Carolyn