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The Man, the Myth, the Legend

Channel Tres

November 9th, 2019

It prompted the question "when someone on whom we depend emotionally lets us down, disappoints us or leaves us hanging and uncertain, what is our characteristic way of responding?" And if you admit to one of these you're emotionally immature.

Do you sulk?

Do you get angry?

Do you grow cold?

And I realized I definitely go cold. I can be dismissive or disinterested or aloof. I say "yeah, no problem" or "no worries" but what if you not showing up when I wanted you to is a problem or if you letting me down is a concern?

Going cold means you don't have the courage to admit that you care and that a person, an external force, has a bit of power of your life. "Not feeling anything replaces the enormous threat of being alive."

The video was like being emotionally mature means that you're confident in your emotional nakedness, even though you know opening yourself up to someone can lead to you being hurt.