How do you choose to deal with people that push your buttons?

I am usually a gullible kind and people come to know that I am rather susceptible to sweet tongue and love. Can't really differentiate between fakes in life!! So, people try to materialize on that part if not by poking right where it hurts and making me hyper thus. A few years earlier I used to succumb to that right away and would invariably end up doing stuffs that would fetch me no good. I used to compromise on me-time and stayed up till later hours in office to do others stuffs! But, much wiser that I have become, I hardly allow others to use me. On some occasions I really put my foot down. I hardly find others pushing the sensitive buttons and making me jittery, a you have mentioned. May be, I do not mix to many people around. But if and when some do that, I try to ignore or leave their company. It hurts though but I have been learning to take it in my stride.

I usually walk away and avoid the person before I explode. LOL! I also warn them at first but if they persist, sorry, better get outta my way or you're never gonna hear the end of it. And i'll be saying "I told you so!" or "Don't say I didn't warn you!" LOL!

Learnt this the hard way actually James. Still gets a little difficult at times. But the awareness and realisation is there.So i try to normally take a few moments and evaluate the sitaution before reacting. The best way that i have found is to remain quiet and shift the focus of attention elsewhere. Some people then are persistent and then a little bit of sterness on my side then kind of diffuses the situation.

Though I know that ignoring it is the best thing but its easier said than done.I really wonder what and why it makes few people tick to irritate others.Well,sometimes,I try not to answer at all,but other times I either tell them to go mind their own business or just try to revert it back to them.But the last action really needs quick wit to do so.Which I am not so richly endowed with.

Stay away from these and if you can't avoid them just cut them off. I have people in my office who are like that and I sometimes leave because of them. Its one of the more irritating things one has to deal with and I personally hate it. In fact, one such person just walked into the office. Coincidences are amazing !

My vision tends to blur the moment that happens and i'd feel that my auditory sense is not working well. So i usually go numb and still. I do not "deal" with the person immediately and i'd walk away. After 24 hours, i get back at that person. It might sound wrong but i won't be able to sleep if i do not express what i feel. I do not allow anyone to get away with doing this to me. They always get a piece of my mind, and sometimes get the same treatment they have shown me.

If I get the inclination that the other fellow is pushing my buttons deliberately, I quickly gather my wits and remain cool, calm and composed. If I get an idea that the other fellow wants to instigate me, I just avoid losing my temper at all cost. I know after some time, when the fellow will observe that I am not flaring up.......will end the topic or change the topic. Best course of action appears to me is not fall in somebody's trap. However, even if I fell into the trap, I realised very soon that it was a deliberate attempt to push my buttons and if the fellow does it to me repeatedly, I start avoiding that fellow.

I've had a couple of people like this in my life and what I do after being mad at them and telling them how ticked off I am is I totally ignore them. I don't pay them an mind and I act as if they don't exist. I've been too tired confronting them and giving in to their whims that I just choose to let them go and let them be and I won't care.

i usually ignore them and move away from the situation because if i do not i know i will lose my temper so i find if i move myself away from the situation that is best until cool down because lashing out is not my thing i try to live in harmony with all men women people in general life is to short to be angry over silly things so i just avoid them that is the best way for me to deal with issues!!!

I usually just walk away from the situation. I try to not make a bigger deal about it. Because I've learned when people are doing that and trying to make you angry that if you give in and give them a raise then it's exactly what they wanted. I don't like to give them what they want in that situation. So normally just keep my mouth shut, walk away and let them get over what it is that made them so cranky that day! lol

I have learned to just walk away. I worked with a guy who knew exactly which buttons to push to get me riled. I don't know why he thought it was funny to piss me off, but he did. My boss knew I was kind of high strung, too. He used to say or do things just to see how I was going to react, especially if I was already ticked. I finally decided that the co-worker was not going to get to me anymore, and told him as much. He decided to back off when I flew off the handle and brought him to his knees, literally. I got to where I just smiled at my boss when he decided to pick on me.(He did it just because it amused him, and he did it in a good natured way.) My son is another one who can push my buttons. Instead of getting mad and yelling at him, now I just give it right back to him, give him a taste of his own medicine. When he gets mad because I push him back, especially if he starts it, I tell him, "Don't sling it, and I won't throw it back!" It really is much easier just to smile, and walk away than it is to get into a fight over it. It is much less stressful, too.

I normally ignores them and try not talking with them. But if they still keeps on bugging me i dont control anymore my emotions and i just let out what i truly feels. Sometimes people who knows us needs to be reminded again and again before they realized that what they did is wrong. And when they see us angry thats the time they stop lol.

I cant say that what I do is the right thing but when someone really knows how to push my buttons, I retaliate. I too am a button pusher and will sometimes go to great lengths to push the other persons buttons. If you are good at reading people, this is not hard to do. But perhaps the right thing to do is just ignore it.