Enough Is Enough! Knowing When to Retreat

When is the verbal war over? How do you know if you were the winner or the loser? The answer is simple. If you have used up all of the verbal defense strategies in the last two chapters, and nothing has worked, it’s time to retreat. This means “unplug.” Get away from the extremely toxic verbal abuser. Run. Run as fast as you can!
Run for your life.
Some individuals are similar to drug addicts on PCP. It’s very difficult, if not impossible, to quell their bizarre and often violent and intensely destructive behavior (like running naked down the street). They develop the strength of ten men, to the point that in many cases they are impermeable. They are literally like “Supermen” who can’t be defeated by the usual methods. They are physically resistant to pain, perhaps because the alteration in their biochemistry doesn’t register the sensation of pain.
Because individuals on PCP are usually a danger to themselves and to society, great efforts are made to capture them and lock them up. Several law enforcement officers report that such individuals are so strong that it can take up to twelve officers to subdue them. Additional reports claim that they easily burst open their handcuffs and chains and can even bend the bars of their jail cells.
Similarly, if none of your verbal strategies worked to subdue the verbal bully, you need to cut your losses and move on; otherwise, like people on PCP, they can annihilate you.
If you have done everything, from giving them love and kindness to giving them hell and yelling a them, and if none of the techniques could soften or change the verbal bully’s behavior, you have absolutely no other recourse than to run for your life!