216 - What is Emotional Support?
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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How to Recognize a Lack of Support in Relationships
I think that ways to recognize a lack of support might include dismissing or minimizing your experience or feelings. So this almost falls into like the gaslighting territory to me. You have a experience with your partner or they say something, for example, that irks you in a bad way and you even just ask like kindly about it. It doesn't have to go that far. I feel like I have to catch myself to stop myself from doing this to partners,. Right? In my family of origin, a lot of like problem solving was kind of like dismissing or minimize someone's feelings.
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