Sentences with phrase «emotional distance because»

Conversations like this eventually create emotional distance because the more critical and contemptuous you are, the more you will chip away at your friendship.

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Teachout follows Ellington from his childhood in Washington — where he gained his name «Duke» because of his stylish dress — and the first band he formed at 20, to his move to Harlem at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance and his emotional distance from family and friends for the sake of composing his music.

The emotional charge of these paintings, some quite physically imposing because of their size, colors, subject matter and complexity of space, results, he says, from his willingness to abandon what he now sees as the distancing effects of his earlier storytelling, and to turn to details from his past.

It doesn't seem like that would really be a key ingredient for friendship and for having a good sex life, but it's very essential because there is an increasing sense of emotional distance when couples don't do these things.

You know it's so destructive, because it creates more emotional distance between you.

There are many reasons behind what causes distance between spouses / partners: anger, pent up resentments, a break down in communication, a lack of trust, emotional insecurities (insecurities with yourself or about your partner), a natural need for more personal space — it may be as simple as needing to create a little more distance because you feel emotionally more comfortable from a more distant place of relating.

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.