Eh, it can be quite painful, but you just need to reach the point where bullying someone else is less of a hassle.
Girls tend to go for passive-aggressive emotional attacks which can be harder to deal with.
The rejection therapy and the Disneyland solution might still work here. Though in that case I'd look for advice from girls; I'll get to that if I have a daughter AND she gets bullied; no hurry :)
Eh, it can be quite painful, but you just need to reach the point where bullying someone else is less of a hassle.
Kind of a late reply on this one, but I'll point out that this depends on what kind of bully you're dealing with. Not all bullies are opportunists or cowards, and in particular some are playing a dominance game which they will not permit themselves to lose. To respond to a challenge by changing targets would be to implicitly acknowledge that they don't have dominance over their original target, something they're unwilling to accept, so they'...
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