40 Love and War: Attachment and Intimate Relationships
The Place We Find Ourselves
The Importance of Emotional Disconnection in Conflict
Sue Johnson is the founder and developer of something called Emotionally Focused Therapy, or EFT. She says that most fights are really protests over emotional disconnection. Underneath all the distress, partners ask each other, can I count on you? Depend on you? Are you there for me? Will you respond to me when I need you? The anger, the criticism, the demands are really cries to their lovers, calls to stir their hearts.
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