gray rock method

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as a narcissist or psychopath.

Word forms

gray rock method the gray rock method

Etymology

From the idea of a gray rock being an uninteresting object, introduced in 2012 in an article on the Lovefraud website written by the user Skylar.

Synonyms

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