How Growing Up In A Militant Household Affects You
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Julia Austin
You shut down in conflict
As a child, the only way you could survive all of the yelling and lectures and criticism was to shut down. You’d eventually just stop listening. You’d go numb until the lecture was over. You couldn’t emotionally stomach being present and alert for all of it. Now, in other relationships, like when a romantic partner says he needs to talk to you about an issue, you shut down. It’s your kneejerk reaction to conflict.
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