What Conflict Avoidance Is

Conflict avoidance is a type of people-pleasing behavior that typically arises from a deep rooted fear of upsetting others.

Many of these tendencies can be traced back to growing up in an environment that was dismissive or hypercritical:

• enduring uncomfortable situations instead of expressing issues openly
• denying an issue exists by ignoring it
• fear of disappointing others
• deliberately sidestepping conversations
• silently resenting unresolved issues.