A friend of mine recently started calling me a nickname that references my mental health. I have been struggling with my anxiety a lot lately while also working through some tough stuff from childhood, I’m calling this period of my life my regrowth stage. I have opened up to this person about my current struggles which was difficult for me. How do I ask this person to stop calling me this nickname?
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Tell them to stop using the nickname because it’s harming your efforts to heal. If they won’t stop, they are not your friend, so say goodbye or just ghost em.
Give them their own cute nickname like ‘fucking asshole’ or ‘cuntface’, something along those lines
You might have to stop reacting to them when they call you that, they will get bored eventually or feel awkward
Btw you really don’t have to be polite about it… that ‘friend’ of yours is being a dick lol.
I usually just ignored when they wanted my attention by calling me something that i don’t like, pretty quickly they started to us emu real name instead, so that may work?