Repressed emotion often stems from a distressed childhood. Perhaps as a child, you learned it was safer to avoid positive or negative emotions because that’s what your primary caregivers taught you to do. You may have learned to bury powerful and difficult emotions deep inside because you weren...
and your new life feels fairly stable. Your ex comes by to pick the kids up for the scheduled visits, everyone is getting along, and support is being paid in full and on time. You think, finally, we’ve overcome that horrible
That seemed difficult to explain while driving, except to talk about how some hills were really difficult to climb or that made you go really fast when you went down them,since he had experience with some different hills, many of them very steep. But it would have been easier to explain ...
Manipulators often voice assumptions about your intentions or beliefs and then react to them as if they were true in order to justify their feelings or actions, all the while denying what you said in the conversation.For example, your spouse might falsely accuse you of still having feelings for...