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Relationship Patterns - How to Relate to Other People Through the Lens
In our earliest relationships, we learn how to be with another person. It's like we internalize these rules of the relational road. When things go wrong, it's like we don't even see the other person. So imagine somebody who's grown up in a family where they were mistreated or coerced. They experience other people as angry and hostile and trying to control and coerce them. But everything is through the lens of their feeling put upon,. Their feeling mistreated, and they tend to lash out at the people. This is the most important concept, I think, in all of psychology.