The Karpman Drama Triangle graphically depicts that we tend to take on 3 distinct roles, a victim, a persecutor, or a rescuer, when involved in conflict and drama in relationships.
Escalation within a couple’s conflict happens when each partner communicates in a way that leads to harsher comments, more intense emotions, and the volume going upwards, figuratively and literally.
Whichever anger pattern is employed, they all appear to have the same goal, to get the other partner to do what the angry partner needed, but could not successfully obtain before his or her anger became the cover-up vehicle.
