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It’s All Your Fault: High Conflict People

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The Importance of Apologies in High Conflict Personalities

High conflict personalities see all relationships as adversarial. So if you say, I'm sorry, then that means you agree you're one down. And now they're one up and they can treat you worse. It just gives them a relationship message that's not accurate. That's why it's better not to use words like I'm sorry,. But mostly in many ways talk about the future. High conflict people are stuck in the past. They're always trying to rewrite the past because they can't grieve and heal the past so they're trying to rewrite history.

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