Concept

The resistant partner

Changing your leg of a triangle changes what the two of you produce, but against someone invested in the previous outcome the change is met rather than accepted. The triangle still resolves; it resolves somewhere you didn't choose.

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Treated in

  • Part Two — How to PracticeReceivingSix things you can do with what arrives at you — fighting back, withdrawing, parley, doing nothing, withholding, blending — and the test that tells a stable standoff from ordinary avoidance.
  • Part Five — The Standing ThirdsThe Dyad-KinNineteen two-person patterns, each one two Self-Kin meeting. Know any two of the three and the third follows, which means changing your own leg changes what the two of you make.

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