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Why Not Fighting Is Making Your Relationship Worse, According to Therapists

Therapists say passive-aggressive behavior can leave partners guessing and drained, with research showing the uncertainty can be exhausting.

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You can’t just let the fight be a fight. Within an hour, you’re the one smoothing things over, apologizing, making sure he knows it’s fine—even when it isn’t. And the thing you actually needed to say? Still unsaid. It’s called fawning. It’s the fourth trauma response, after fight, flight, and freeze. “Fawn is when your […] The post Why Not Fighting Is Making Your Relationship Worse, According to Therapists appeared first on VICE.

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Whether in love, in family or in friendship, there are words that are worth more than others. And sometimes they are particularly difficult to express. When you want to express what you feel about your loved ones, you probably think of the famous "I love you". Yet, there is not just these feelings that contribute to asserting your feelings and deepening the relationship. Moreover, according to Gary Chapman, there are five languages of love: qual…

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