Concept · Dyad

Interpersonal complementarity

Warmth invites warmth, coldness invites coldness (correspondence); dominance invites deference and deference invites dominance (complementarity, opposite answered with opposite). Two different mechanisms on two different axes, not one universal rule.

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  • Part Two — How to PracticeThe Trust TriangleAuthenticity, empathy, logic — the three legs a two-person weave stands on, and what breaks when one goes missing.

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