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When resentment builds up for decades and an adult child starts to blame their sibling for their unsatisfactory relationship with their parents, they may eventually cut off contact with that ...
"Oftentimes, resentment may be building up — like you haven't adequately said 'no' to someone or explained what you're not comfortable with, so now you're secretly frustrated and feeling taken ...
John Mordecai Gottman (born April 26, 1942) is an American psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.He's research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses.
Although psychologist Dr. Wendy Walsh, a psychology professor and ambassador for the website DatingAdvice.com, says that the word “toxic” isn’t a clinical term, everyday people tend to use ...
Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a complex, multilayered emotion [1] that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust and anger. [2] Other psychologists consider it a mood [3] or as a secondary emotion (including cognitive elements) that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury.
In several social psychology experiments, people chosen at random to receive messages of social exclusion became more aggressive, more willing to cheat, less willing to help others, and more likely to pursue short-term over long-term goals. Rejection appears to lead very rapidly to self-defeating and antisocial behavior.
Boredom, resentment, and dissatisfaction may occur, and individuals may communicate less and avoid self-disclosure. Loss of trust and betrayals may take place as the downward spiral continues, eventually ending the relationship. (Alternately, the participants may find some way to resolve the problems and reestablish trust and belief in others.)
Enmeshment is a concept in psychology and psychotherapy introduced by Salvador Minuchin to describe families where personal boundaries are diffused, sub-systems undifferentiated, and over-concern for others leads to a loss of autonomous development. [1]