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Reply to "Derail conversations by focusing on semantics. Why do this?"
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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I don't argue too much, but I get so annoyed when he does this and replaces my word with his word that means just about the same thing. me: Why are you angry? him: I'm not angry, I'm upset. Then we start conversating about words. I obviously am acknowledging you have a negative emotion about something, but I still don't know what it is, because you want to talk about the difference between angry and upset. In our case, I think he uses euphemisms too much, and he thinks I label things too harshly. If I say something is bad, he might say, "It's not bad, it's just not optimal." I eventually get frustrated and say, "so we agree that such-and-such needs improvement." It's okay if we label it differently, but if we have a similar understanding of something, we can work together to improve whatever it is.[/quote]
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