From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players

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Yes...but

Yes...but

From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players

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Yes...but

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- The second game that I want to tell you about is called yes, but. Sometimes it's called why don't you? Yes, but. I'll give you an example of this. We went to visit some friends recently and my friend's wife takes the children to school while he's at work in the city and she was complaining about how much time it takes to drive her children to school 'cause it's 45 minutes each way to get there, so that's an hour and a half and then at the end of the school day, she has to go and pick the kids up again, so another hour and a half. So she's spending three hours a day in their large, comfortable Mercedes and she was going, "Oh, it's awful, I have to spend so much time driving. "It's three hours a day." And I said, "Isn't there a school nearer to where you live?" And she went, "Yeah, but it has to be that school." Then I said, "Well, is it worth moving a house? "Cause your kids are going to be going there for you…

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