Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
Do you value what your partner values? If not, you may be in for a rude awakening when they suddenly get upset with you for seemingly no reason.
What’s important to you may not be important to them, and vice versa, but it might be a good idea to make it important to you since your relationship’s longevity may depend on it.
Transcript for this episode is here.
When you sign up for a relationship, you sign up for who they are now. But are you signing up for who you hope they’ll be as well?
Are there expectations that should be met when it comes to a relationship? And if they aren’t met, do you have every right to demand they be met, “or else?”
Sometimes we need to revisit the contract we signed getting into a relationship and what it means for us if who we thought they were isn’t really who they are.
What do you do when someone you care about tells you a secret that affects other people you care about? Do you follow your heart or your values? Does your moral compass activate and make you express the secret to those who should know?
A dilemma like this seems like it has no real good answer. But I’ll share what I went through and how I handled it.
Are you just too sensitive or is the other person really being a jerk? I read a follow-up email from an episode a few weeks back and answer a question about the difference between being triggered and someone’s bad behavior.
In segment two, I get serious and talk about child sexual abuse and what might happen when the family secret is found out.
Sometimes we’re stuck with someone that doesn’t have our best interest in mind. Not only that, they may even have a not-so-pleasant plan to make us miserable.
What do you do with the toxic person that doesn’t want to, or can’t change? Is there hope when you’re in what seems like a no-win situation?
I try to answer that question in today’s episode.
