Mixed Feelings

In the first rush of being in love, you might feel completely dedicated to your partner, ready to do anything and everything to help them through a tough spot or even just make their lives a little easier.

Empathy and your fast-growing attachment can fuel your desire to be there for them and help them however possible. But the hormones involved in love can sometimes affect how you make decisions.

You might also look at other things with new eyes. Many people in love feel more willing to try new things, or things they previously didn’t care for, simply because their partner enjoys them.

We sense our emotions from the time we're babies. Infants and young children react to their emotions with facial expressions or with actions like laughing, cuddling, or crying.

They feel and show emotions, but they don't yet have the ability to name the emotion or say why they feel that way.

As we grow up, we become more skilled in understanding emotions. Instead of just reacting like little kids do, we can identify what we feel and put it into words. With time and practice, we get better at knowing what we are feeling and why. 

Bottled up feelings cause emotional and physical turmoil. Stress, anger, sadness, and similar emotions need an outlet.

Otherwise, these things will eat you up inside - deteriorate your sense of self worth and your possible accomplishments. Sharing emotions also proves to us that we aren't alone.

It eases the burden of feeling like the entire world is on our shoulders, when in reality that couldn't be farther from the truth, Even if there isn't an immediate solution to what we are feeling, sharing these emotions with someone else has tremendous impact on our overall well being.

It eases the burden of feeling like the entire world is on our shoulders, when in reality that couldn't be farther from the truth, Even if there isn't an immediate solution to what we are feeling, sharing these emotions with someone else has tremendous impact on our overall well being.

It is important to share you're feelings with others so that they can help you to the best of their ability and try to understand what you are going through.

Keeping things bottled can be unhealthy and could lead to depression if you don't talk to someone, not everyone understands what you are going through, but opening up to others just to let your feelings out and vent about a problem that has been building is a great way to release all that tension that has been building for so long.

Even sharing your feelings with yourself can really make a difference; just writing them down or expressing them in whatever creative way you like just means they're out of your head and not on a constant loop day to day, sometimes building up in speed and intensity.

And if they're out there it allows you to understand and work with your thoughts, if you don't particularly like what they're saying to you .

When walking down the streets of Seattle, you will come across a lot of people, and you know what?

Every individual has a story to tell, which makes you wonder, what kind of life others are leading, and whether your life, your experiences, and feelings matter.

Your feelings allow you to connect with others, but unfortunately for many newcomers in Seattle, the Seattle Freeze (a cultural phenomenon that stems from Seattleites not being overly friendly with strangers), prevents many from forming lasting connections.

Although, if you approach the subject, most Seattleites will tell you they crave relationships more than anything else.

 People generally have a hard time expressing themselves, because all of us have been conditioned to act hard, and be hard all the time.

It takes courage to be vulnerable, and express how you feel to others, and the reason why many find it difficult is because it isn’t common or accepted.

Antonia Damasio says "Feelings are the mental experiences of body states."

As you grow older you start getting more adept at expressing and identifying your emotional feelings, and this in turn helps you become socially adept, as you build relationships with people around you.

The better you are at expressing and identifying your feelings, the better and deeper your relationships will develop.

However, it is a difficult thing to master, because in the process of growing up, many of us lose the ability to express or understand our emotional feelings.

It is a science, but it is also a long process, its the journey of life, and we have the choice to live it every day.

Well...I wasn't sure of where I was standing honestly, I kind of enjoyed being single and going out for dates but somehow a part of me wanted to experience the feeling of being In a relationship again.

Calling my man when I leave work, when I get home, just when I was about to sleep, you know the little things I'm referring to? I had  really missed that but I wanted to board that bus knowing where my station was.

 I hated playing with someone's feelings, it's something I never did,  that's why I never understood and still don't understand why people choose to lie about how they feel, its hard to believe. 

Linda Carroll once said  "The stages of a relationship are not linear but cyclical. Even people who reach the fifth and final stage of a relationship—Wholehearted Love—will eventually find themselves looping back to Stage 1 to start the process all over again. 

But they can always find their way back.

The beginning of a relationship is full of butterflies. Though, as romantic as that all sounds, sometimes the fluttering isn't a giddy reaction at all;

Instead, it's an uneasiness that stems from something called early relationship anxiety, and it's a phenomenon rooted in the anticipation of the unknown.