Triangulating: In Relationships, Friendships, & FamilyBy Charlie Huntington, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Have you ever felt torn between two people, like somehow you got caught in their relationship? You might have been experiencing relationship triangulation.
squarely in the middle of their conflicts. It was painful to hear the stories of each of them turning to their daughter for validation and support. Surely she could see how unreasonable the other parent was being? My clinical supervisor told me to ask the parents to stop this behavior as quickly as possible. Putting their daughter in the middle of their feuds would not help anybody, she assured me. She might even have used the word triangulation, introducing me to the psychological concept that I’ll be writing about today. Let’s see how relationships end up getting triangulated, what the effects are, and what we can do about it.
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