
TU59: Are You Cool, or Just Cut Off? Dismissing/Avoidant Styles of Relating in Adulthood
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The Blue Side of Defensiveness
The ability to need and be connected is essential because that's what makes us feel valuable in a relationship. And so if you're the one always doing the caretaking and can't tolerate being care taken, that's a real sign that you probably are falling on the blue side. On the red side, it's more feeling with less thinking. But where we want to again move towards is an integration. So if you're a little too intellectual and rational, if anybody's ever called you Spock, then again,. that's a clue.
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