The phrase "emotional minefield" means a situation or environment that is filled with potentially hurtful or sensitive emotions, making it difficult to navigate without causing harm or discomfort to oneself or others. Full definition
If you don't, it's all too easy to use distance to avoid conflict; intimacy is lost because you both are constantly feeling that you walking through emotional minefields and can't be open and honest. (marriage.com)
has become an emotional minefield for many people. (bostonmamas.com)
With two young kids fifteen months apart, some days it feels like I'm walking through an emotional minefield. (parentingfromtheheartblog.com)