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How to Express Emotions Truthfully and Lovingly

Name: How to Express Emotions Truthfully and Lovingly
Uploaded: 2024-04-11T16:00:20+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: Dave Willis, speaking in a short YouTube segment, advises that adults should express emotions truthfully and lovingly. He contrasts healthy emotional…

11 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Dave Willis, speaking in a short YouTube segment, advises that adults should express emotions truthfully and lovingly. He contrasts healthy emotional expression with screaming, demanding, or manipulative behaviors (likened to a toddler’s tantrum), and emphasizes emotional regulation to preserve trust in marriage/relationships.

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When you have emotion, you can express that emotion, but you speak the truth. The Bible says in love. And when we're screaming and demanding, that's not truth. In love, you might be saying, well, that's how I'm feeling. Well, there's a healthier way to express how you're feeling. As adults, we have the ability to regulate our emotions in a way that maybe a toddler does not. But if we're trying to stomp around getting our way the way that a toddler might try to to get candy at the grocery store, that's going to be manipulative and ultimately going to harm the trust in the marriage.