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#64: The Role of Criticism in Anxious-Avoidant Dynamics

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The Different Types of Critical Criticism

Anxious criticism is designed to get connection in this really survival-driven way of, I'm going to be critical of you. The avoidant flavor of criticism tends to be more under the surface and it tends to be around doubt and uncertainty. It's sort of like this sense of the ways in which we're different. My brain takes us proof that we are not a good fit because I feel very protective of my way. So as we can see, they come up in different ways, right?

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