Fallacies-Personal Narrative

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Situation 1: My boyfriend and I had an arguement over wether to over-draft our account to go on a date night. Tyler said that he had a surprise for me. I asked him what the surprise was going to be and if it was going to cost money? He told me not to worry about it I knew we just paid bills and I didnt think we had the extra money to spend on anything.
Physiological and Nonverbal reactions: My face was started turning red. My hands in fists. My eyes were glaring. Butter flies in my stomach. Started to sweat.
My emotions: Irate, apprehensive, and worried about what would happen if we did overdraft the account. Then there was also the feelings of being grateful, fond, and intrigued by what the surprise might be. Self talk: Is going out for a night really worth the risk of having less money next paycheck. What happends if something going wrong with the car and we dont have any money to fix it. What happends if I dont like the surprise. I dont want to hurt his feeelings. I have to go, its his money that he makes from his job. I don't want him upset at me for not wanting to go.
Fallacies:
Worring about the what ifs and this might happen was a expression of the catastrophic expectation fallacy because the situations
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which makes me gulity of portraying the catastrophic and helplessnes fallacies. Just because the car is being driven doesnt mean someone else will hit it nor does it mean that the car will even be in an accident. Another couple fallacies being expressed are the aprroval and causation fallacy. if someone hits me my dad will be disapointed in me. on on ehad it shows that i want the approval of my dad in the light that i am a good daughter as well as sayingthat because something happened i absolutely know that my dad will be disapointed when in all reality i hav no idea what my dad could be feeling unless he expressed

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