My partner and I both lost our jobs within three months of each other and we're handling the financial stress completely differently — they want to talk through every decision and contingency plan while I need space to process before I can problem-solve. We're starting to take each other's coping styles personally.
More people experience this than they realize.
Crisis has a way of turning our different survival strategies into sources of additional threat.
“Where Are You with Codependency?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.