A couple mirrors each other's defensive patterns and refuses to listen. A facilitator traces this back to a past relationship with someone named Octavius and warns that healing stalls when both partners stay focused on defending their points instead of hearing each other.
You two mirror each other's behavior.
Yes, she is me. I told her that. I even eat what I get.
Let me tell you the reason I brought up that you all mirror each other is because the thing that I realized about your relationship with Octavius was that you didn't wanna hear him. You don't listen. And then you came out and I realized you don't listen to her.
I do listen when she talk, but she doesn't talk to me.
No, no, no. I'm gonna tell you, and this is not to disrespect the other girl. I understand, I understand. It's just to tell you what I observe. You don't listen to her because one of the things, and you don't listen to her either, but I understand where you learned it from. So it's just a pattern of no one's listening. And what is happening is that this is just bleeding into the rest of your lives. You don't listen, you don't listen. Let me tell you why I understand why this is going to take a long time for this to ever heal is because y'all are so busy defending your points that you're not willing to hear each other.