You're Ruining Every Relationship By Avoiding This One Conversation

If you want to ruin every relationship in your life, avoid every difficult conversation, stay silent when something hurts, and convince yourself it's not the right time to speak, I get it. You think that avoiding uncomfortable conversations will save you from anxiety, but that's not true. It makes it even worse. And what's really going on isn't just fear of conflict, it's a lack of emotional skill. You haven't learned how to sit with your emotions, how to name them, regulate them, or meet someone else's with compassion. But there's a way out. It's called affect labeling, and it's as simple as learning to say, "I feel overwhelmed," or even, I am frustrated. When you name the emotion, you take away all the unnecessary fear and anxiety, and suddenly the conversation you were avoiding becomes a conversation you're grateful for. If you ever avoided a hard conversation, comment "guilty" below.