Philosopher Rebecca Roache on why she sulks in romantic relationships. She explains how intimate partnerships create different behavioral norms than regular social interactions, and how being pushed into a dependent role led her to sulk as a way to respond when excluded from major decisions.
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Is that people who aren't generally sulky sometimes sulk in their romantic relationships, which was the case with me. You know, you have these sort of norms that we obey in our interactions with others, but. But then we sort of have our intimate relationships with our romantic partners and sometimes with other family members as well. And it's like there's different rules apply. You know, there's sort of some topics that. That people just won't discuss with their partners or they don't approach issues in a. In a certain way because that's just not how things have done. So. So yeah, I think I was a bit of a sulka. There was a bit of a dynamic of me being a kind of a dependent partner. So. So, I mean, so in some ways I was. I was kind of pushed into that position, but, you know, sort of someone who wasn't really making the big decisions. And so, you know, sulking was something that I would do.