How to dea..1. seeing them more realistically, understanding their limitations, and adjusting your expectations.
Signs of Emotional Immaturity People who are emotionally immature don’t meet society's expectations for social behavior within their age range. It’s safe to assume that a grown-up will be able to consider their impact on others and pay attention to their feelings. Emotionally mature people ca...
Recognizing the signs of toxic behavior and learning how to deal with toxic parents is possible — and crucial — if you hope to break the pattern of mental, physical, and emotional abuse. As you explore the different types of toxic parents, you’ll start to see the impact their toxic beh...
They fall into the “neurotic,”“immature non-depressive,” or “immature depressive” categories, which suggest they do more harm than good. Those mechanisms fall into defense levels 6 to 1: Level 6, obsessive defenses: Defenses keep uncomfortable, often repressed thoughts or feelings at a ...
If you are still with me, you don’t really need to choose an approach right now. Especially if the breakup is fresh. But it’s important that you don’t do anything to push your ex further away by making desperate mistakes that most people make when going through a tough breakup. How...
Because of how things were with an emotionally immature parent, an internalizer learns how to manage their own emotions and mostly focuses on taking care of other people’s emotions and neglect themselves. They often take the role of the kid taking care of the parent, but this shouldn’t be...
16 'Tells' That Your Parents May Be Emotionally Neglectful Many emotionally neglectful parents are good people trying their best. This can make it hard to identify the problem. Relationships 5 Min Read An Unexpected Key to the Most Successful Relationships Sensitivity is important...
Don’t try to fix people. First things first: Being chronically ill and neurodivergent is a long-term deal. If you are someone who goes into relationships with the intent to "fix" someone else, swipe left. This is not going to be a good fit for you. To be in a relationship with ...
1. Avoid toxic people I believe the best way to deal with toxic people is to not deal with them at all; to avoid them. In some cases it may not be an option, but more often than not, it is. This is why I encourage you to really think about the options you truly have with eve...
Your intellect might want the behavior to change, but your unconscious beliefs keep steering you towards the pattern. It is an autopilot program still trying to protect you emotionally. To effectively change a behavior, or negative thought, you will often need to inventory these other layers of ...