Don't Try This At Home, Kids...
Here's something fun for all you emotional sadists out there. If you really want to cut someone who cares for you down...repeatedly do a specific activity they've specifically asked you not to do. Something like, say, constantly bringing up the subject of your ex...or even better, keep looking at their photos and leaving them out conspicuously so your current involvement has no choice but to see them. Then tell them they're paranoid for even mentioning it. You know you're gettinh the salt right into the wound when clearly it upsets them. Signs of this upset range from the phrase "This really upsets me." to tears and even hysterics.
The real pros add insult to injury by giving the 'talk to the hand' sign and walking out of the room...or better yet, the building.
This is a good way to ensure that even someone who truly cares for you eventually becomes bitter and contemptuous and thus re-enforces the obviously paltry amount, if any, of respect you might harbor for yourself regardless of how overblown of an ego image you try to show off to the world at large.
The real pros add insult to injury by giving the 'talk to the hand' sign and walking out of the room...or better yet, the building.
This is a good way to ensure that even someone who truly cares for you eventually becomes bitter and contemptuous and thus re-enforces the obviously paltry amount, if any, of respect you might harbor for yourself regardless of how overblown of an ego image you try to show off to the world at large.