It provides
a safe emotional distance from their problems and can help bring suppressed feelings to the surface.
If you adopt that stance, you'll probably be able to maintain
safe emotional distance.
Not exact matches
Voyeurism implies that you're watching something from a
safe distance, with no
emotional involvement required of you.
Immerse yourself (at a
safe, virtal
emotional and physical
distance) in war in battlefield games with realistic graphics, as in Control Craft Modern War.
When there's a lot of
emotional distance, when couples have just lived parallel lives, it's really helpful to create rituals of connection — little bits of time they can count on spending together that is gentle time, good time, caring time, fun time, but time together — that helps them feel
safe enough to resume that fondness and admiration.
Dr. Johnson speaks about how fighting within the context of feeling overall
safe in the partnership is healthy, but the true indicator of trouble is
distance and a lack of
emotional safety and trust.