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‘Fleabagging’ and three other ridiculous 2020 dating trends

#Fleabagging #Dial-Toning #WhiteClawing #Caspering The advent of dating apps and digital communication is still a brave new world — and this decade already has fresh names for the new ways people are dissing each other in the pursuit of love and sex. Ever since Charlize Theron  helped bring the concept  of “ghosting” into the mainstream in 2015, trendy words for the ways we can snub would-be, has-been and current lovers have evolved into an entirely new language. Here are four of the most depressing entries in the 21st century dating dictionary: Fleabagging To serially date people who just aren’t good for you. This latest one is inspired by Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acclaimed BBC series “ Fleabag ,” in which the creator and actress can’t stop dating men who are a bad fit for her. One example:  a “hot priest .” Match dating expert Hayley Quinn tells  Cosmopolitan  that the trend is self-inflicted, explaining that “someone ghosts you, whereas you fleabag ...

How shutting down your feelings can be disastrous to your relationship.

  #Emotions #HealthyRelationships #Communication Research has shown that suppressing your emotions pretty well shuts down communication within that relationship. Let's chat about what the findings from one study might mean for your relationship. James Gross, a scientist who studies emotion, found that when we try to suppress emotion, this is what happens: • It's very hard to do - basically it doesn't work. We have to work very hard to shut an emotion down once it is up and running, and in the process, we often get more agitated and tense. This is especially true in close relationships when the trigger for the emotion, the other person, is still there giving us signals that get us all fired up. • Emotion doesn't stay inside our skin. When we try to shut feelings off, the people we are relating to also get more and more tense. When we are denying our feelings, our partners probably get tense because our faces register our feelings way faster than the thinking part of the ...