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Scenario

When co-founders have mismatched stress responses

My co-founder is brilliant but he handles stress by disappearing for days without communication and then coming back with solutions nobody asked for. I handle stress by over-communicating and trying to control everything, and we're both making each other worse but we've never actually talked about how our coping mechanisms are incompatible.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people's natural coping strategies are creating a destructive cycle that neither has named or addressed directly.

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Aurelius
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Peri

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