The Bully and the Rescuer

From Kindergarten on, your school teachers drummed into your impressionable mind, rules to ‘play nice’. This behavioral map that began on the playground, could be influencing your conduct and defining your role in relationships today.

On the schoolyard, play nice meant don’t bonk Susie in the head with the ball. As an adult, play nice might have morphed into enabling your boss or lover for them to save face, so they…