My partner and I both work in high-stress jobs and we've been trying to develop better emotional intelligence together, but we keep getting stuck because I process emotions by talking through them immediately while they need time to identify what they're feeling first. We end up in this cycle where I feel shut out and they feel overwhelmed, even though we both want to get better at this.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to developing emotional intelligence are discovering that their different emotional processing rhythms create friction that undermines the very skills they're trying to build.
“Where Are You with Emotional intelligence as knowledge system?”
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