How emotional awareness leads to connection in relationships

Measuring a significant others emotional levels based on ones own personal levels can lead to blind comparison.

What may seem like something meaningless or significant can easily fly under the radar to realising it may differ to your significant other. If you spend time with a partner it’s a subtle ride into assuming you get where they are coming from.

Having conversations or check ins around how one another is feeling & just listening to hear them, confirms that you are willing to continue to receive their inner experience. This can bring understanding and connection into the relationship. Which can often be dismantled in an on going partnership.

There will always come the time for an individual to do their own inner work of course, however, being in union with someone; you may just find that a lot of growth will come through working with your significant other as well.

It’s evident that alot of inner expansion happens with many types of relationships, whether it be romantic, plutonic, family or a friendship… this is because by acknowledging these relationships as a mirror you find that they reflect a part of you in some way, shape or form.

All kinds of relationships can be a catalyst for self growth and awareness, it’s just that romantic relationships can turn out to be very pervasive into our inner world as it’s often that we share ourselves on a more intimate level.

To my knowledge, I believe this is one of the pillars of emotional intelligence. Truly, recognising another’s emotional frequency and seeing how that plays apart in the choices and progression for interaction.

In todays age emotional intelligence is making its mark for its importance, to some it isn’t always as revered as logic nor acknowledged for its usefulness.

None the less that doesn’t mean it serves no purpose. Lots of factors play into this but it’s quite simple.

And it’s likely that, this is where we often feel unseen or missed.

Just as logic serves a great deal in keeping temperament in check, emotional receptivity can help uncover some deeper pathways that lead to growth by a means of understanding.

Like I said in the beginning some times logical issues require practical reasoning to bring resolution and some times emotional waves require a level of empathy to create connection.

If not realised, this is the path where a once mutual understanding splits in two.

Deciphering whether to use logic or emotional awareness, will always be important and that’s on discernment.

It’s important to remember that feelings can come from one’s idealised self image but furthermore, feelings that come from a truer place, often a deeper origin would be more effective in the process of strengthening and growth.

Both partners have an opportunity to reflect.

All while both feel heard and seen, as more often than not, many relationship turmoils come from a previously rooted experience(s).

This is the reason why it can be beneficial to explore the feelings that come up. Because as we mirror one another, there is an incredible value in working together to heal and expand both individually and collectively.

Exploring emotions during conflict can be used as a marker to investigate a situation with deeper insight.

How is this relevant? Because among other things, support is where strength go hand in hand, if you're supported in all the ways that need be, strength will follow.

Having a strong relationship and the benefits that follow is for another discussion though.

Hitting road blocks are very normal too, because everyone operates differently in hindsight… yet if you are seeking a deeper level of connection and romance, true empathy can take things to the next level.

So long as you are connecting with your inner self and romanticising you as an entire being, this creates the equilibrium for a flourishing connection.

If you find yourself compromising your own levels of commitment to your self, its possible to find incompatibilities and ultimately, if it’s a yes I’d like this person in my life, then working through these steps can help, if it’s looking like a no, and you’d rather not have them around, evaluating this can also be necessary too within what feels right with you.

I don’t mean the

~ it feels right but it’s wrong ~ type.

With experience you’ll understand what I mean, but if you’re able to get a sense of goodness or growth. That’s the kind of work that’s worth it.

Overall, relationships will always reveal things to you at the right time, regardless of how they are presented.

Staying centred within your own inner peace can help you see things with clarity.

When a significant shows up with their feelings from their heart in their hands, it’s an invitation for connection rather than the opposite. It’s only when we measure their nature by our own that blind expectations and comparison, that disharmony arises.

Whether it’s happy or sad, bothered or content, worried or peaceful in nature.

All an invitation into another’s world essentially revealing doors to your own.

It all ties together. You may see that it’s an ebb and flow reciprocally between receptivity and expression.