Ah, it’s not easy to express yourself with family and friends! The people you love and care for the most!

Comfortable Expressing to Loved Ones

Easier to Communicate With Strangers – There are No Stakes

It’s easier to communicate clearly with people you don’t know. Why? Because you don’t know them, so you don’t really care too much how they feel.

If you’re not happy or feel angry, you won’t think twice. You’ll tell them exactly how you feel and that too in a polite but firm manner.

You Care Too Much About What Loved Ones Think

You care too much what your family or friends think. And so you don’t end up saying anything at all and bottle up your feelings. Or you respond in a passive aggressive way. That doesn’t do any good. Nothing is out in the open.

Ironically, it’s your relationships with your loved ones that most need clear communication.

How Can You Feel More Comfortable?

• Sit down and talk to your loved one
• Write down how you feel in your journal
• Start with baby steps. Express your feelings about something small
• Tell them how much you love them, but that you need to communicate your feelings
• Ask your loved one to tell you how they feel as well

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When you feel angry or disappointed with someone, you may have two reactions. You either react explosively or bottle up feelings. I generally take the latter route.

Accept Your Anger or Sadness

Important to Accept You Feel Angry or Sad

Instead of shutting off the feelings or reacting quickly even, why not simply accept what you feel? Don’t take any action. Just take a step back and allow yourself to feel this way.

When you’re angry or sad with a co-worker, stranger, or even a loved one, it’s important to tell yourself that you have a right to feel this way.

When You Feel Mixed Emotions Toward a Loved One…

When I feel pissed off at someone close to me, after I feel angry, then I immediately feel guilty for even feeling angry in the first place.

But this is not a healthy reaction. When you can accept how you feel, you become comfortable with your emotional side. And it allows you to open up as well.

You Can Have a Honest Conversation and Come Up with a Solution

You can finally face the person in question and talk about how you felt. You can discuss what made you feel angry or sad. This fosters a healthy line of communication in your relationships.

Have you felt this way? How did you accept your emotions? Please share with me in the comments.

Making the person feel emotionally guilty in a relationship happens a lot more than you think. It can be used as a weapon for one person to get their way, but it can be a dangerous weapon.

Guilt as a Weapon

Gets You What You Want in the Short Term, but Not in the Long Term

You may be able to get what you want now, but it won’t do your relationship any good in the long term. If you keep saying “if you love me, you’ll do…,” then you’re not building true intimacy in your relationship.

After all, love is not conditional.

Does Not Build Trust

The foundation of any relationship is trust. Making your partner feel emotionally guilty or vice versa will not create this long-lasting trust. The relationships and marriages that have stood the test of time have loads of trust between both partners.

Your Partner Builds Resentment

Even it works today, your partner is building resentment inside. He may give in because he cares for your deeply but all those bottled feelings will do no good for the future.

True Feelings Not Communicated Lead to Outbursts

Both partners’ true feelings must be respect3e and brought out in the open. If any one person’s emotions or desires are being suppressed, that person will suppress them which may lead to explosive outbursts. And it can be too much for your relationship to handle…

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