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Advice compares a wife's skillfully dealing with both Grandpa and Husband in a potential or actual conflict to a middle manager dealing with both headquarters and Labor in the local project. Strategy is to finesse the situation with grace, to sidestep a conflict that comes natural to the territory. Part of Being Type A is dealing with others like yourself without butting heads in an ...
