This week I learned about the Karpman Drama Triangle.

Like any lens, it's not fundamentally true or false, just another lens for your toolkit.

It identifies three roles:

The Victim

The Persecutor

The Rescuer

It notes that there is a stable triangle where three people can fall into these three roles and become mutually codependent on one another.

Each gets what they need in some sense, locking them into the triangle.

People tend to have a role they gravitate toward and are more likely to fall into.

This stable triad spontaneously emerges and persists in a surprising number of contexts.

What is the role you often fall into?

What is the way that your actions in that role perpetuate dysfunction?