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3.09 UNWILLING TO COMPROMISE, HOW TO RESPOND -- SELF-HELP TACTICS FOR COPING WITH VERBAL ABUSE== #9. How to cope with the other person not being willing to compromise. Ask the person to see things from your side; if that person wants you to give in, he or she will have to yield a bit. Since abuse it about control, most will not want to compromise. Yet in the interest of fair play, they must. If they never compromise, you have big problems for the future. A relationship is about compromise. People who won't compromise are not in a relationship, instead they are dictators or tyrants. And naturally they would not want to be told what to do by someone else. If you hit a brick wall, insist that the two of you see a counselor. See this related idea: inflexible |
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