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Prioritize developing capacity to repair relational ruptures
Prioritize developing capacity to repair relational ruptures over preventing all ruptures, as rupture-repair cycles build the implicit expectation that disconnection is survivable and relationships can hold difficulty.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from Internal working models of self and others, constructed in (internal working models from early relationships), Learning occurs when outcomes differ from predictions, (learning from prediction error), and Piagetian Equilibration Through Schema Dynamics (cognitive development through equilibration). The lesson explicitly argues that rupture-repair cycles BUILD capacity rather than damage relationships - this is the derived, actionable principle. The Tronick Still Face research and Winnicott's 'good enough mother' concept demonstrate this mechanism. This is clearly a principle, not an axiom, because it tells you WHAT TO DO given how learning and attachment systems work.