Emotional harm can be hard to name and easy to dismiss. We know when we’ve been physically hit, but emotional is really different. All sorts of things can cause emotional harm… what can we do to protect ourselves from it?
Emotional harm can be hard to name and easy to dismiss. We know when we’ve been physically hit, but emotional is really different. All sorts of things can cause emotional harm… what can we do to protect ourselves from it?
Aging does help! It’s pretty freeing to care so little what others think.
I have the opposite problem: I have a hard time letting others get close to me. I’m very emotionally closed-off and as a result most of my friendships have been pretty surface-level. How the heck do you figure out who is safe to be emotionally vulnerable with?
It is hard, I go by my gut instinct and it’s generally right nowadays. I don’t trust easy though
I tend to ask the people close to me if they’d be interested in joining me for xyz and seeing how they react.
Asking for small favors and trading back and forth is also a good method I know to tell who’s more trustworthy and dependable.
Besides that it’s hard to share what tricks I know as it’s second nature/intuition for me. If I happen to notice them I’ll share it here🤗