Do you find it hard to cope up when someone hurts you emotionally? Here is what you can do, to come out of that emotional injury.This strategy will facilitate your calmness and thus enable you to respond, not react.

But before I say anything,would like to ask you a question.

How do you react/respond when someone mentally challenged, hits you?

Immediate reflex is to safe guard yourself and along side let go with compassion. Isn't it? Do you actually carry it forward and feel raged with that person?? 99% of the people would let go, reminding themselves, that the person is mentally challenged, doesn't know what he/she is doing. In fact, often we are filled with compassion for such challenged people.

Aren't we??

Precisely, this is what your approach should be, for anyone.

If some one is rude or mean to you, out of narcissistic behaviour, anger, rage, ego, jealousy or any sort of power positioning in a relationship, he/she is in a sick mental state. Yes, these are all signs of ill soul and thus need more compassion

Irrespective of his/her overall personality, the person is actually in an ill state of mind and soul at that point in time. Hence, you got to remind yourself that this person is just not well enough and thus needs to be treated with compassion. Does this mean he/she hits you and you make your self available to be hit again?? NO....note above, your first instinct was also to safeguard yourself. In other words, safe guard yourself from this person, by distancing for sometime yet be available to support. Moreover, safeguard yourself from the undue hurt and sadness, by letting go....else you would be carrying his/her anger and thus become sick like him/her.Yes these follies are contagious. So be mindful!

A person can not give other than what he/she has...so you stay compassionate at core as a human and nurture this for mankind.Be resilient for life long relationships. Let there be a room, for cooling period and no unnecessary arguments will ensue.

When this person will be in senses he/she will come back to you..and if they don't comeback, still you will be able to leave them, without injuring your own self. Yes you gotta love thyself, the most. Am I hyping your ego now?? No... I am recommending only living with self esteem.

Self preservation is the core to self esteem, whereby you let go what does not align with your core happiness however through mindfulness, not reaction. Instead, ego would be when they return to you and you do not embrace them. As long as you are compassionate, you will accept them as they are and thus embrace them! Gradually the transformation of such beings is possible.

Hope it helps! It has worked well for an exceptionally emotional person, like me.Trust me!