Turn the other cheek

I turn all four of mine on a regular basis. Keeps me balanced! ROFL

I've turned the other cheek so many times, I've gotten to where I turn them both straight up & request the offender kiss them BOTH. Not as religious as originally intended, but can be very spiritual!!!

I probably turn it a little more than I really ought to. I hate conflict...

i dont turn the other cheek anymore.. i was raised to but after all the crap that has happened to me i refuse to be a victim anymore and take abuse from people (abuse as in emotional.. i know your not saying the other cheek as in hitting literally lol)

I try to live my life so that I don't have to turn the other cheek. But, in those instances where I probably should, sometimes I don't. I would like to say differently, but I am only human, and sometimes I just don't do the right thing.*S*

Well I wouldn't call what I do "turning the other cheek", it's more avoiding the slap in the first place. I wasn't always like that, but the morning I walked out of Casualty with my broken finger taped up and passed my assailant as he was wheeled in on a stretcher with concussion and a slight fracture of the skull, I decided that my form of retaliation was perhaps a fraction vigourous, and I should tone it down. I should point out that I have never once been the aggressor. In the ensuing 32 years I have managed to avoid having to decide about turning the other cheek, but even now I'm not sure what I would do if someone actually tried to whack me one. It goes against my nature not to retaliate. Lash

I have done the nearest thing many times.I have made a furious person cool down by not being furious at him but by trying to reason with him with a smiling face.It was hard.But I just wanted to try and succeeded.I am sticking to this practice since then.It works most of the time. May be slapping and showing the other face almost means this.

Unfortunately the last time I "turned the other cheek" I ended up getting a real "knock out sock on my jaw" from the same person a few months later! I learned a good lesson from that experience.

I determine my retaliation, or lack thereof, by the situation. If I'm slighted and it's no big deal to me, I just let it go. If it is a big deal, however, I let my passive aggressive side take over and get even. There are some situations where turning the other cheek is just not a very good option.

Hi p1ke..the problem with me is that I am always turning the other cheek then when it really hurts I turn and hit their cheeks..but both of them so the person knows I won't always turn either of my cheeks! lol hugs littleowl

Honestly..if someone or something upsets me i let them know otherwise i can't sleep kicking myself for letting it get to me.. Did you get your package yet?

I do about 75% of the time...the other 25% is when i get feed up with peoples bs and retaliate. I am generally a nice person and can take alot, but there are times when enough is enough, and i will be rude or what not, depending on what the situation calls for.

Hey p1ke! I am not very good at "turning the other cheek"! I am not one for looking the other way when someone does something that I don't feel is right especially if it effects me negatively! I don't like anyone to try to walk all over me in any way. I am not one that likes confrontation, but I am not one to walk away from it when it is necessary either. If you do something to me that I feel you need to be told about then I am going to tell you whether you like it or not. And if it is something that is serious enough that it is going to affect our friendship, then watchout! I have no qualms in cutting off friends who push be beyond my breaking point! I am getting quite good at it in fact! There is plenty of room in my life for new friends all the time so there is no need to keep those that I feel will drag me down and aren't worthy!

no way man would i turn the other cheek, i believe in eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, break my arm i break yours, etc........ catch my drift.

How else are we going to get both cheeks blushing pink? Yeah, I do more then I want to. Every time I get with my family...at any gathering.Either that or World War 3

I do often turn the other cheek.. figuratively of course, as not often am I slapped on my cheek! (Then it would be harder yes?) But often I try not to always speak (or write) responses if the response or reaction is snippy, etc. Often when you have an angry retort to something it doesn't help anything to say it, so I've decided in most cases, why say it? If it's a great social cause, however, it may be better to speak up. And you can turn your own cheed but not someone else's!

There are only so many times one can turn the other cheek. If the problem won't matter in a few hours, then I do, but if it is a problem that must be solved, i will do whatever I need to do to get the problem solved, and to make sure justice will be done. I am trying to teach this concept to my husband who, in my opinion, turns the other cheek way too much.

Reluctantly, and only once. I'm not stupid enough to give them a third try.

Grit my teeth, count to ten, but it doesn't always work. Unfortunately there are not enough people trying to live a Christian life. If more people did, there would be no need to turn the other cheek.

I am not exactly sure what this proverb means, but if it's something to do with acting differently from expected while being the victim of the violence, or respecting your enemies by not responding with violence then it's clearly idiotic. I'm just imagining the picture: you come home from work at midnight to find your wife's guts shattered on the walls, and your little 5 year old baby girl raped, tortured and half eaten by someone, hey man I think you gotta go nuts and kill the whoever did it, or find the instruments of law to do it for you because that's just too mental. No one will tell me they will just sit calmly and do nothing, or like you said "turn the other cheek".... yeah right...