Turn The Table Around For Every Neg Try To Say Something Positive In Its Place. If You Do This Alot Then You May Be Able To Change The Way People Think. As Thumper Would Say If You Can't Say Any Thing Nice Then Don't Say Anything At All. Alway Praise People For Good Things. Focus On The Positive. Good Luck.
Because gossiping is wrong. It's that simple. As the person on the receiving end of some pretty malicious gossip stories it hurts worse then getting hit in the face! Especially when it spreads it takes on a life of it's own and then becomes one big LIE. Everyone adds their little twist to make it a little more spicy, or conveniently "miss hear" the details. Sometimes people will just plain out right spread a lie as gossip for revenge. I thought I had a very good friend I could trust and told her more then my doctor knows about me. The Christmas before last I had asked her to talk a few minutes. She didn't like me interrupting her convo with some other person but it was an urgent issue. This was on a message board so I said fine then and left an angry face. She flipped way out and started fabricating things about me on the internet! It really bad hurt even to this day. I had a relative in the hospital emergency, I needed her just to talk to a few minutes as A friend. She not only snubbed me she flamed me with lies,gossip all over the place! I never spoke to her again, sometimes people come to me and they say "OMG! did you know **** talks about people!" and I smile to myself. Please remember the cardinal law
If they talk TO you about others, they will talk to OTHERS about you.