Why Not Fighting Is Making Your Relationship Worse, According to Therapists

You can’t just let the fight be a fight. Within an hour, you’re the one smoothing things over, apologizing, making sure he knows it’s fine—even when it isn’t. And the thing you actually needed to say? Still unsaid. It’s called fawning. It’s the fourth trauma response, after fight, flight, and freeze. “Fawn is when your…