emotionalimmaturity

Learned this week that my parents were both emotionally immature, meaning I never learned to recognise my own emotions and needs. Spending this week reflecting on my emotions using an emotion wheel. Realised this morning (with the help of a brilliant book) that I really struggle to give my wife emotional airtime where she feels listened to and validated. Really want to learn but there's a lot of past experiences with my parents getting in the way. Not quite sure where to begin. Managed to give her emotionally responsive attention once for a few minutes today, but then I had to shut her out again. It was all too much. Spent most of the rest of today feeling sad, angry and fearful all at once.

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