Title: Options for responding well to an overly-rigid person
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Content: Does this sound like any adults or kids in your life? Rigidity refers to the way people think and express themselves on some topics. When rigidity focuses on demeaning certain traits, ideas, people, or organizations, it becomes bigotry and/or         prejudice. The opposite to personal rigidity is flexibility, open-mindedness, tolerance, and compromise,
What Causes "Rigidity"? Though each person is unique, several causes may be common. One is being psychologically wounded from early-childhood abandonment, neglect, and abuse. This can cause significant shame, insecurity, distrust, and the unconscious need to control other people and situations. Excessive rigidity (vs. firmness) can be seen as a desperate attempt to make an unpredictable world safe from confusion, doubt, and pain . If I accept that your different opinion may be valid, then I must face feeling (or being seen as) wrong / stupid / ignorant / inferior. Trying to persuade a wounded person to "be more flexible" is as futile as using logic to get an addict to choose sobriety or an atheist to want to accept a Higher Power.