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When your partner cannot tolerate your feelings

My boyfriend gets angry when I am upset about anything and says I am too sensitive but I think he just cannot handle emotions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional intolerance masquerades as rationality while invalidating legitimate human responses.

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