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When conflict occurs, what is your conflict response style?

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Aware of the Mutually Reinforcing Trap/When conflict occurs, what is your conflict response style? Pursuer /When we…/●Feel anxious and insecure●Eager to get closer/●Eager to talk things out /The other side may feel…●Suffocated and seek distance from us. Blamer/When we…●Flare up and argue●“I am right, you are wrong” ●Try to change another side/The other side may feel…●Humiliated and want to fight back.Distancer●When we…●Don’t open up●Seek emotional distance and physical space when stress is high/The other side may feel…●Being rejected and desperate./Overfunctioner●When we…●Too quick to advise and help the other out/ “I know what is best for you” “My idea is better than yours”/The other side may feel…●Deprived of autonomy and want to resist or give up./Good parent-teen relationship ≠ No disagreement/Courageous acts of change may help break the mutually reinforcing trap

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