The respondent makes hurtful disrespecting comments aimed at
the person bidding for connection.
Contemptuous Responses The respondent makes hurtful disrespecting comments aimed at
the person bidding for connection.
Not exact matches
A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support
for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's
connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one
person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible
bid.
In all three examples the other
person's «
bid»
for emotional
connection was acknowledged and, in the last two examples this acknowledgement included the added bonus of making a plan
for further interaction and emotional
connection.
As Dr. Gottman quips in The Relationship Cure, it would be a relief if we could create a world in which «
people made all their
bids for connection in the form of standard written invitations... all expectations and feelings would be spelled out in vivid detail,» and there wouldn't be any more «tension or guesswork.»
Learning the language of emotional
connection is very important to me and I find that when i look at someone and the
person does not acknowledge my
bid for connecting by looking back something is lost, an intimate moment is lost.
«The real danger is that
people are checking their devices so often, they're not noticing a partner's
bids for connection,» Gottman told Psychology Today.
People frequently make «
bids»
for emotional
connection and that these attempts to connect with those around us can take a variety of forms.
Bids for connection include anything and everything designed to promote or restore a feeling of
connection and solidarity between two
people.
As a couple's relationship matures, it is common
for some
people to start making
bids for connection less frequently.