Dbsalliance

We talk about the pernicious mind-zapper that is denial. We feature two scenarios in which our love-lorn protagonist Nick pines for the affection of Anne. Anne turns him down over concerns about his behavior and his clearly sinking mood, In the first scenario, Anne expresses her concern for Nick's predicament while offering suggestions for how he could possibly turn things around. Nick remains open to ideas, even the ideas that suggest his behavior may be leading him down the wrong path. In the second scenario, Anne again expresses her concern, but this time, she gets nothing but a hard time from Nick who uses every excuse in the book to deny that his choices may be having much of an effect at all on his bad situation. It's sort of comical, but it's also very real in that these are some of the exact excuses all of the co-hosts have heard from at least one person in their lives at one time or another. The mind boggles at just how people are able to build such elaborate ways to defend against the sca