The key thing for you to understand is that they are going to make you feel guilty. And so what we actually need to do is use this technique, first recognize the emotional transfer and then try to acknowledge their emotions. We're not going to say all kinds of negative things to them. That doesn't really work well. They can emotionally escalate as much as they want to. But if this is a relationship, they've got to be participants in it.
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