Hello, Thrivers. This is Laura Monk with Thrive Therapy and Counseling. And in this podcast today, I wanted to talk about triangulation. And what is that? So triangulation is essentially when a person in a family dynamic or a friendship dynamic will be mad at an individual in that group and then they will try to get other people to be mad at the person that they are mad at in order to try to get people to take their side, so to speak
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So we don't want to create that awkward negative dynamic in the future. People also triangulate in order to have a sense of power and control in basically their life. So let's say you've got kids at a high school and you've got a person, let's say a teenage girl who likes to pit people against each other or gossip about people behind their back and say nasty things about people and get people to be upset with one another