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Showing curiosity about your spouse's emotional life and helping them identify emotions can help them move through difficult emotions, like depression, anxiety, and anger, faster.

In fact, even a simple hug can reduce our cortisol levels and get our heart rate down. 🫂

Emotional regulation is a skill (just like walking or talking) that needs to be learned over time. The role of a parent is to help the child learn emotional....

One of the common ways that emotional immaturity shows up especially, but not exclusively, among men is channeling all one's needs for connection and intimacy into sex.

Emotions are how the brain makes sense of what you are experiencing, including your body's physical reactions to your environment...✨

Becky Castle Miller::::: studying emotional growth as a form of discipleship....🙆

Connection has two ingerdients>>>>> vulnerability and trust

...living a good, fulfilled life is being able to be vulnerable and intimate with other people. 💕💖💌

One person's sin can break a covenant all on its own. And when a covenant has been broken, keeping up a facade that nothing is wrong is just plain offensive *Isa.1:12-14 💔

In Scripture, God compares his relationship with his people to a mirriage, so how he treats his covenant with Israel gives us some insight into how marriage should work. Jeremiah 3:8>>>God gave Isarel "certificate of divorce"