When arguments heat up, pause and ask what past emotional wound got triggered. Speaker B traces the feeling back to unmet needs like being heard or seen, then responds from that awareness instead of the surface conflict.
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What could I do next time that might change that a little bit? And it's having that. That conscious reflection. I sometimes even have done it in the middle of an argument with my partner, where I'm going, whoa, this doesn't feel like our stuff. And I'll go, okay, so how old am I now? That's.
Awesome.
An age will come in, and I'll go, okay, so what was happening for me at that age? That. That. That. All right, what did I need? What was I feeling past? So right now, it's not because of whatever it is we're arguing about. It's because I'm not feeling seen or heard or understood or whatever it is. And so I can actually sort of backtrack out of it. And I have done before.
This is gold. And there.
Was.
Yeah, I want to underscore it, because this happens to each of us. We get caught into something, and we respond or react, and it really takes effort to go. That's not what this particular situation's about.