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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Controlling people start "conflict" and "arguments" to agressively demand that someone do what they want, and when the other person chooses not to engage in the manipulation tactic, they claim the other person is avoidant, not able to handle conflict, and not able to handle communication.

What you can do instead of ask someone if they'd like to do something calmly, in a non passive agressive or aggressive manner, and the other person can say yes or no. That's it. You can restate your cause, maybe one or two times, again, in a non passive aggresive or non aggresive manner, but that's it.

This is what I expect. I don't argue or engage in "conflict" with other adults.[/quote]

Today an avoidant wrote a whole screed to demonstrate what it's like to deal with the irrationality of an avoidant who can't even acknowledge that conflicts exist organically without making a screed about it.  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Cool.

Listen... [b]Conflict is the inevitable result of two non-same entities sharing enough time and space. There will be disagreements. This is a conflict. You want Chinese, she wants pizza. This is a conflict.[/b] It doesn't need to be a massive blowout all-out war, but it is a conflict. If I want Chinese and you want pizza, but we can both agree to tacos, we're good. If I only want Chinese and you only want pizza, so we order from different places, we're still good. Assuming that someone is trying to be 'controlling' is nonsense; most people are just trying to be understood by other people who don't innately understand them.

You do sound like you "can't handle communication" if you think that literally any conflict is to be avoided, and that anytime you're in conflict with someone, it's because they're controlling and trying to manipulate you. [/quote]

This is a disagreement. if it leads to an argument, that is conflict. The issue is not disagreeing with someone, but letting a disagreement get to a point of I am so angry right now and you need to figure out how to make me not angry or else. [/quote]

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