What common way does a couple try to de-escalate tension or resolve a fight? If your first answer is sex, you're not wrong. But it's not the answer I was looking for. A common way many couples try to ...
Machiavellians are master manipulators. They prefer to cloak their misdeeds in subterfuge and plausible deniability. Sometimes they target their victims directly, as when a con artist swindles an ...
In this video, I unpack my personal experiences with narcissistic triangulation—when someone brings others into an argument ...
I am often asked about the relationship between triangulation and narcissism. People want to know: Why did my mate bring a third person into our relationship? What did he or she gain from making me ...
A middle-aged couple once brought their teenage son "Roy" in for an initial counseling session. Before the session, his mother met privately with me to explain that Roy had become a handful -- he was ...
Triangulation is an important subject in marriage and family therapy. Chinese family culture emphasizes consanguinity, which means that adult children have great difficulty separating from their ...