Unhealthy Relationships & Emotional Blocks (Emotional Wellness Month)

Taking care of your emotions is often challenging and uncomfortable to manage. Whether you are a caregiver or not, it is essential to take care of your necessities. Neglecting your mealtimes, sleep routine, social connections, and exercise makes your emotions feel scattered. Being a caretaker is not an easy task to do. Your priorities get shifted and you focus on the person that needs your attention.

Often you feel lonely, guilty, impatient, and unappreciated as a caretaker. Yet, being the only caretaker in the family makes you realize who are your real friends. Sometimes being a caretaker makes you lose your friendships and relationships. However, being a caretaker is the best option for the person you are taking care of. Avoiding burnout is the toughest aspect of being a caretaker because it takes a lot of physical and mental energy from you.

Even if you are not a caretaker, you are still vulnerable to burnout. Being in a romantic relationship makes you forget about yourself. As well constant worry, concern, and your partner's feelings make you unaware of how you feel. Therefore, you concentrate more on your partner without them knowing it. You absorb your partner's habits, and actions, and repeat their quotes.

Nonetheless, concentrating on just your partner and not you can become an unhealthy relationship over time. When your partner is not feeling well and hides his feelings from you; It makes it difficult to help your partner to feel better. Other times, your partner might feel it is not important to tell you everything even if it is bothering them. Nevertheless, your intuition tells you that something is bothering your partner. Unspoken emotions and feelings are the toughest factors to manage in a relationship. 

Other times, your partner may not listen to you all the time. His actions, behavior, and other circumstances make him withdraw from you emotionally. Furthermore, being in unhealthy relationships hurts your self-esteem, self-confidence, and your overall health. Sometimes focusing too much on your partner makes you neglect your emotional health. Moreover, blocking your emotions without attending to them makes it hard to understand how you feel. 

To have a healthy relationship with your partner need to have a balance between both partners. Commitment, communication, connections, trust, loyalty, and sharing are important for a healthy relationship; As well as speaking in terms of "we" and "us." Doing self-care individually and together can also strengthen your relationship. However not sharing each other's emotions and feelings does put a strain on any relationship. Besides feeling bored, not feeling good enough, and pessimistic self-talk is hurtful towards your partner.

 

Before you get into a romantic relationship make sure it is the appropriate time and place to be with someone. Sometimes having too many emotional issues and too many priorities make it complicated to be in a relationship. Other times you might meet a fine person to be in a relationship with but end up being with an unfitting person. Denying your feelings and emotions for one person is closing yourself to a better relationship. An emotional blockage makes you in an unhealthy relationship. 

Emotional blocks make you indecisive, frustrated, unaware, mood swings, and fearful. Yet, not working on your emotional blockage makes it harder to be in a healthy relationship. Continually working on your emotional wellness makes you see what is best for you and what is not. Practice self-care for your emotions. Seek professional therapy and counseling. 

During October devote some time to emotional wellness. Practice relaxation techniques and do not neglect your necessities. Give yourself some time to understand, accept, and manage your emotions. Practice emotional wellness with your partner and by yourself to have a stronger bond in your marriage. Here are websites for Emotional Wellness Month. 

What are Emotionally Healthy Relationships:

https://www.healthyplace.com/self-help/self-help-information/what-are-emotionally-healthy-relationships

Emotional Side of Caregiving:

https://www.caregiver.org/resource/emotional-side-caregiving/

Improve Emotional Health:

https://www.livewellwithsharonmartin.com/improve-emotional-health/

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