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I had some interesting conversations yesterday after posting the story about...conversations. (It’s the next picture if you want to see what I’m talking about.) . It seems a lot of us were raised in “everything is fine” households. By a generation that wasn’t taught to speak by their parents. So this isn’t an a blaming thing, it’s a recognizing thing. . I grew up with two emotions, “happy”, and “angry, but pretend you’re happy”. . While I think great strides have been made in allowing women to express their emotions, there is still the negative stigma towards men expressing theirs. And the ones that are trying to, are finding that they are using brand new muscles for the first time and it’s hard and a lot of the “old guard” still doesn’t accept it. . I read a book called Running on Empty that really helped me. As well as using a deck of “emotion cards”, that had illustrations and the names of other emotions besides happy or angry. As silly as it sounds, I really didn’t know that that many emotions existed. . What are your thoughts? . #emotions #mixedemotions #runningonempty #relationships #safespace #mantalks