Tanya Coons
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3,654 appearances
23 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2016
last heard Aug 2022
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So it's kind of pointing that out and saying, Hey, you know, I wonder what it would be like if we could just drop that defensiveness for a second while I tell you how I feel.
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And a way to bring something up that might be easier for people to hear. 'Cause when you start sentences with you, you always and you never, they kind of come with a pointy finger and they make they make people defensive naturally to that sort of language.
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So if you want to bring something up, the best way to do it is to say, I feel insert the feeling.
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uh when insert the behaviour or the situation, how I make sense of it is.
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This is the big one for other people to understand what's going on for us.
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And then what I would like is
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So an example that I'd like to use is um I feel really angry and upset when I come into the kitchen and find jam and toast crumbs all over the counter.
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How I make sense of it is you don't care about me.
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What I would like is to have a clean kitchen and like everybody else has when they come down for breakfast.
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Right?
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It's not you always leave a mess, I'm so sick of this and b you know, that sort of
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Pent up sort of emotion that goes from hanging on to it.
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Does that make sense?
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It's really hard when your partner's defensive 'cause it may be something that they naturally bring into arguments.
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So I'm not gonna say this is easy, but it is worth having a try.
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So why does
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Tans?
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So you've you've argued yourselves into the into agreement.
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I think that's probably when the brain's flooding 'cause you've gone way past your three to five minutes there.
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So it's probably you get very tired and in the end it's like, What were we arguing about again?
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