177 - This is Your Brain on Love
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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What Is the Fighter Flight Response in Relationships?
In an argument with your significant other, and maybe they say a particular word, or reach a particular tone in their voice. That triggers this feeling of like, ogosh, the last time they hit this particular volume, we were talking about breaking up. And so that's what triggers,. i guess, the fighter flight response, ove like, well, either i need to attack you back, or i need to retreat... It could be something from menomy parents in childhood, or a sibling during childhood, or, you know, any number of other relationships, like all sorts of things. If somebody continually gets upset over the same thing, and their partner is not able to to understand
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