Difficult Conversations

Are you good at having difficult conversations?

Are you good at initiating them?

Are you good at active listening during difficult conversations and responding without getting angry?

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

I was once told to get out, because I wouldn't get riled up, during a temper tantrum.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@DeWayfarer did you leave?
That would be my move

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Patriot96 Yes. Came back to a wrecked house many hours later. Yet he had calmed down by then.

That was my father.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@DeWayfarer you can replace objects. It could have escalted to something physical

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Patriot96 I knew my father very well. Mom divorced him over his temperament. Yet he never ever touched her because of it.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@DeWayfarer you are lucky. I witnessed abuse from very young until i moved out at 20

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Patriot96 my mother was an alcoholic!

FYI I took care of them both until they passed away.

None of my three half siblings would.

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