A Tactic to Avoid Change. When called to account for a violation, rather than denying it totally, The Neglectful and Abusive Woman minimize it. This may not be part of the lying pattern-because they tend to see an offense as less serious than others do. They minimize it even to themselves. However, when confronted, the attempt to minimize is clearly to save their own skin. They try to conceal the harm they am doing by deliberate understatement. Another tactic is to make “joke” of unhealthy plans and say that, because they did not act on they, they are not worth discussing.
