Change is an Emotional Business
Making major changes can be a time when we experience intense emotion. It is a thoroughly emotional business, from the desire we feel for change to what we feel when making the change.
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Making major changes can be a time when we experience intense emotion. It is a thoroughly emotional business, from the desire we feel for change to what we feel when making the change.
Sometimes when we are puzzled by our emotions, when they seem out of proportion to the incident that evokes them, it may be because the emotion came first — the emotion was there and we needed something to attach it to.
Why is romance such a strong value? I think part of the reason is that our emotions are so excluded for much of our lives. Romance is one area where we are allowed to make a decision based on our emotions.
Sometimes the direct approach to changing a habit doesn’t work. This I think can especially be the case with relationship habits. When we set about changing our habitual ways of relating we can find that our emotions get stirred up.
When we can do pretty much whatever we want, and have a variety of ways to do it, the question becomes what we want to do. The focus shifts to values.
We assume that other’s experience is the same as ours — but what if it isn’t?
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