DISCUSS: Verbal attacks

Discuss the emotions these sentences might evoke in the listener.

• “If you really saw yourself as an equal partner in this work, you’d be doing more.”
• “If you really wanted to be ready on time, you could do it.”
• “Don’t you even care what everyone will say about us when we show up so late?”
• “Even my little nephew knows that.”
• “Everyone knows why you are having such a tough time with it.”
• “Why do never fill the car with gas?”
• “Some people would kick their spouse out of the house for doing that.”
• “A person who really cares about that would find the time to do it.”

Review: Avoid verbal attacks