Healthy Relationships Require Both Participants to Show-Up Emotionally!
"… Just talk, I’m listening, Just talk. I know your tastes in food and wine, but never really what’s on your mind. What’s going on inside your head? I hear you say what you can or can’t. I’m never sure what it is you want. There’s always something left unsaid." Morten Harket, Listening Being emotionally unavailable in a relationship is a major problem. It’s a form of abandonment. If we are emotionally unavailable to others it’s a sign that we have abandoned ourselves. We don’t believe we are worthy of voicing who we are, what we like, what we need, what we think or what we want. In all of these essential areas we remain silent and in being so, we stifle relationships and keep them from growing. The other person feels left out of our inner-world and thus abandoned by us. Over time, the more the other person tries to break through our wall of emotional unavailability, the further we distance ourselves from them for fear that they will find out we really aren’t good...