⚠️ My Confrontation Toolbox
I readily admit that I’m horrible at dealing with confrontation. So horrible in fact, I’ll do whatever is possible to entirely avoid it.
My Confrontation Toolbox contains the following methods:
- Running in the opposite direction of the conflict
- Freezing and saying nothing
- Changing the subject; how about that weather?
- Sweat and dry-heave
- Go blank and sing a song in my head
- Burst into tears/ugly cry
This way of managing conflict is not ideal by any means, and is a result of the household I grew up in and the way I was raised.
Nobody is born this way. You go through things that make you this way, and I’ve been through some things. But that doesn’t mean I can’t change.
And I’m trying my best. I really am.