Sentences with phrase «maintain emotional distance»

They always maintain emotional distance as they find difficulty in trusting anybody.

On the other hand, avoidant attachment is characterized by feeling uncomfortable with closeness in relationships and a desire to maintain emotional distance.

They always maintain emotional distance as they find difficulty in trusting anybody.

This is the excuse I use to maintain an emotional distance from the people in my life who I've decided are socially awkward, economically disadvantaged, or less educated than myself.

Maintaining an emotional distance requires awareness.

He tries to school Will in the ways of maintaining emotional distance from the grieving relatives, tries sharing with him his profound respect for the rules and regulations of military life and subtly tries to persuade him to stay in the army after his time is up.

The most striking characteristic of our conversation was her insistence on maintaining an emotional distance from her portfolio («we don't «love» any of it») and focusing on what might yet go wrong.

Agnes Martin, with the use of the grid, seemed to have struck the difficult balance between maintaining both emotional distance and a subjective involvement in the painting process.

Not exact matches

Miriam Jolesch reports that, among the young couples counseled by her, the chief complaint voiced by the wives «had to do with [her] feeling that [her] husband wanted to maintain his separateness from [her] and [her] distress at the emotional distance between them.»

Armor - plated with a glass screen that kept people from getting too close without feeling shut out, Fosdick maintained a physical (though not always emotional) distance from his congregation.

If you adopt that stance, you'll probably be able to maintain safe emotional distance.

Attachment theory also explains unhealthy development, as insecurely attached mourn lost attachments (think about someone who is legally married but has been emotionally divorced for a long time), engage in inconsistent attachment behaviors (think attack and defend, or pursue and distance patterns), suffer ongoing attachment injury (ongoing negative sentiment override), may experience attachment panic (maintain physical and emotional control over their partners), or maintain multiple attachments for fear of losing or being swallowed by one (who have affairs).

Therefore, the achilles heel to any separation of physical distance is to maintain, preserve and eventually increase / improve the emotional closeness between two committed individuals.

For the purposes of this article, we will be discussing the use of a physical distancing while maintaining emotional closeness in the effort to achieve overall benefits to the relationship.

They are great as long as the couple maintains the physical and consequential emotional distance from one another.