What Are You Protecting When Accountability Gets Too Close

There is a sentence people hear before they hear anything else.Sometimes you say, “This hurt me,” and what they hear is, “You attacked me.”Sometimes you say, “I need you to understand the impact,” and what they hear is, “You’re blaming me for everything.”Sometimes accountability gets translated into attack before the real sentence ever has a chance to land.In this episode of Laugh Cry Scream, Chris Workman talks about what happens when accountability gets too close, why defensiveness rewrites the conversation, and how family estrangement conversations get derailed when pain, shame, blame, and accountability all get tangled together.This one is about the space between what was said and what was received.And the question underneath it all is simple:What are you protecting when accountability gets too close?