CMS 315M Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Gaslighting, Telepathy, Out 1
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Unfair fighting: exploitative techniques that take advantage of the other person, hitting below the belt when people attack you from your weak point, taking advantage. Ex. boyfriend tells girl with alcoholic parents that she"s an alcoholic when really she was just sipping a beer: morality call someone a bad human being. Husband telling wife if she believes in her religion they should have a baby, even if she doesn"t want to: blaming the other for something they can"t control unfair because you can"t control other people. Ex. telling someone to get new parents, obviously they don"t have control over who their parents are: comparisons . Ex. telling a kid that his friend studies so he should, or a girlfriend telling a boyfriend he should do something because other couples are: indirect unfair fighting. Ex. talking to your significant other"s parents about yalls fighting: overemotional.