@itsbeenchilll We are taught from an early age that emotions are something to be felt, but not expressed. Mix that with the pains of life and you typically will get someone who can understand emotions, but had theirs mistreated, so they no longer care to partake in that part of connection.
Maturing is realizing that relationships can work and actually be fixed in almost any situation. it just takes both of y‘all actually wanting to make it work and correcting what you’re doing that’s hurting your partner
someone at work said that a generation of kids growing up not reading books is a generation of kids not learning how to imagine what it's like to put themselves in someone else's shoes and understand how/why they feel what they do (empathy)