Powerful!! Many of us know our emotions (happy, sad, angry) but we don’t understand our feelings. When confrontation occurs, we respond with an emotion, never communicating the root of the upset or disappointment, the feeling (afraid, offended, unloved, unwanted, undervalued, taken for granted). Learn your triggers, then communicate the trigger attached to a feeling and watch your relationships blossom.
Looks like this:
“When you said “X”, I felt “unloved.”
“When I call you and you don’t answer, I feel afraid that something may have happened to you.”
“When you made that decision without me, I felt disrespected, like I don’t matter, please include me next time.”
Gwendolyn J. Jones 