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When different communication styles create relationship gridlock

My roommate and I moved in together as friends but living together has revealed that we have completely different approaches to conflict - she wants to talk everything through immediately and I need space to process first, and now we're in this weird standoff about how to even have conversations about our living situation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very methods people use to connect can become barriers when those methods are incompatible.

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