Here's what you should know about 'emotional flooding' and how to prevent it from impacting your relationship.
“We can experience rejection as threatening. We can experience our partner turning away as threatening. Some people even experience ‘good’ emotions like joy as threatening,” says Pickell.
Interestingly, emotional flooding can be gendered. While anyone can experience emotional flooding, Rose says that according to marriage researcher John Gottman, men experience flooding 80 percent more of the time than women, which can lead to defensiveness, stonewalling or shutting down.; rather they’ve been socialized to shut them down, which can only be effective for so long until they bubble up,” Rose says.
“Studies show that naming what you are experiencing calms down the amygdala, while also creating some space between you and the emotion,” says Rose. “In that space you can observe it, without it defining you, and also take a moment to decide what to do about it.”experiment with ways of shifting out of it
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