RLOAN too moves a little to that energy. But when SLOEN tries to put everything at their own center, RLOAN feels they have no place of their own.
RLOAN wants to quietly do their own work, while SLOEN keeps trying to pull RLOAN into their story.
As the relationship becomes SLOEN's stage, RLOAN feels like stage scenery.
Where you clash
RLOAN's private self is a mode that guards their world, “my room, my rules.”
SLOEN's private self is a mode that believes “my emotion fills the room.”
SLOEN interprets RLOAN's quiet as their own victory, and RLOAN only looks for a way to flee SLOEN's energy.
As SLOEN's need to dominate and RLOAN's pride collide, both get wounded.
Relationship playbook
On the rare occasion SLOEN wants to be alone, RLOAN can share that silence.
Even with message alerts off, reading different books in the living room, it isn't awkward. But after about thirty minutes SLOEN tosses out “what should we eat tonight?”
At that one line RLOAN wants to go back into their room.
The lengths of their silences don't match.
“When SLOEN learns not to intrude on RLOAN's world, and RLOAN can look at SLOEN's energy without rejection, the two can be together without disturbing each other. Only, that's a relationship requiring concession from both.”