
TU59: Are You Cool, or Just Cut Off? Dismissing/Avoidant Styles of Relating in Adulthood
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The Negative Effects of Dismissiveness
The idea of needing a relationship in an interdependent way has become too threatening. To fear the loss of self, to become interdependent could create an anxiety in you because that would mean that you couldn't just rely on yourself. And that can be very scary. We don't go from dismissiveness to security because we don't have practice in that. Of the balance.
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