Contempt is the hardest, most negative,
destructive kind of conflict.
Not exact matches
In their book Marital
Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective, Cummings and colleague Patrick Davies from the University
of Rochester identify the
kinds of destructive tactics that parents use with each other that harm children: verbal aggression like name - calling, insults, and threats
of abandonment; physical aggression like hitting and pushing; silent tactics like avoidance, walking out, sulking or withdrawing; or even capitulation — giving in that might look like a solution but isn't a true one.
The gimmicky references to real - life figures like David Bowie, Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol, all
of whom appear in cameos, reeks
of look - at - me desperation, while the fictional characters are so unlikeable — each one equally self -
destructive and mired in some
kind of hilariously manufactured
conflict — that it's hard to know who you're supposed to be rooting for.
In their book Marital
Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective, Cummings and colleague Patrick Davies from the University
of Rochester identify the
kinds of destructive tactics that parents use with each other that harm children: verbal aggression like name - calling, insults, and threats
of abandonment; physical aggression like hitting and pushing; silent tactics like avoidance, walking out, sulking or withdrawing; or even capitulation — giving in that might look like a solution but isn't a true one.