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How to be okay when things are not okay (w/ Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien)

How to Be a Better Human

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Is It Necessary?

I think we have this magical notion that like, if we're deeply in love, we'll just get each other and we'll just connect. And that's just not how it works, right? Like, we have different ways of approaching conflict. We have different emotional expression levels. Some people are under emotors where they don't express that much emotion. Others are over emotors, where they're like an open book. They have no poker face. If you never create explicit space to talk about that, it's really easy to accidentally buldoze over each other's feelings.

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