Posts Tagged ‘fear of upsetting’

Couple Barriers to Gut-level Communication continued

November 17, 2008

Fear of upsetting my partner
Sometimes we refrain from communicating what we really feel because we’re afraid it may hurt or upset our partners. We think that its heroic to “suffer in silence”. Sometimes it is confused with the biblical injunction to “bear your own burdens” or “to be the least”. A wife may feel that [...]