Is There Emotion Recognition in Your Marriage?

Posted on October 7, 2009 in Marriage Advice

All the reasons of relationship failures are either hidden or less known in today’s materialistic world. One of the many culprits responsible for increasing number of adultery and divorces is lack of emotion recognition. This article tries to understand this crucial factor of coupledom further.

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Emotion recognition is mainly the concept that determines the level of emotional intimacy between the partners eventually. It depends on three factors primarily.

Emotional Acknowledgment: Understanding the pulse of the partner emotionally, requires knowledge of the fact that he is a separate individual with unique emotions. Prior expectations even before the marriage do not allow us to think so. It becomes an hurdle later. Overcoming this hurdle starts the process of knowing our partner emotionally during the dating period. The process involves recognizing our partners emotions per se. Appreciation for healthy emotions and restrain for the unhealthy ones is imperative.

Emotional Space: Once married, the couple should provide space to their partners. It means giving moments to their partners when they are completely alone. Such moments provide either of the partners to think about their standing in the relationship and their future course of actions on individual and collective basis.

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Emotional Empathy: Partners practicing the above two factors for long in their married life, develop the rare quality of emotional empathy. Couples emotional empathetic can intuitively make out the needs and requirements of their partners. This single factor is powerful enough to dissolve all misunderstandings and communication gaps between two separate individuals. It bulids unmatched levels of emotional intimacy between the partners. But it takes years of sustained efforts for both the partners to be emotionally empathetic.

Marriage is a journey of life time comprising of many lessons. Some lessons are quickly learnt. Others are time ordained ones. The concept of Emotion recognition in marriage is one such lesson.

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