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How to handle when a teammate's personal struggles affect group dynamics

Our recreational basketball group has one player who's become increasingly aggressive and argumentative over the past few months, and we all know he's going through a brutal divorce, but his behavior is making games tense and unfun for everyone and we don't know how to address it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Compassion for someone's pain conflicts with protecting the collective experience from their unprocessed emotions.

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