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Emotionally Available For Your Spouse, Episode Two
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1) Availability: You have to verbally seek to make amends if there’s an alt between you and your spouse.
- Being Emotionally Unavailable .. Occurs in short-term/long-term relationships
- Unable or unwilling to share or express one's emotions with a spouse,
- Being disconnected from one's own emotions.
- Difficulty in forming close, meaningful relationship/marriage
- Difficulty maintaining emotional intimacy with Spouse
- Avoid emotional topics or distance themselves from their Spouse in
- Protect themselves from being vulnerable or getting hurt They
- Increased struggle to communicate their feelings or
- Struggle with responding empathetically (the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.) to the feelings of your spouse
- A few Causes for becoming unavailable
- A POSTURE of Selfishness .. Your Spouse is not the Priority
- Lack of trust due to previous relationship issues
- Not learning from the past and repeating it in the marriage
- Past trauma
- Attachment issues
- Personality traits
- Complex issues
- Poor parenting/childhood trauma
- Depression or anxiety
- Signs or Symptoms that you’ve lost communication with your spouse
- Communication patterns are learned behaviors
- The Silent Treatment / Stonewalling:
- Communication patterns are learned behaviors
(Huge breakdown in Communication)
- Spouse shuts down or
- Spouse withdraws during a conversation
- Often a response to conflict or intense emotions
- Difficult to resolve issues or connect emotionally
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