Jennifer Dunne
1 min readJul 29, 2023

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Well, I'm usually happy. So that's kind of the baseline. :-) But there are plenty of conversations I have with my husband that suddenly stop because I'll be like, "I'm getting agitated. I don't know about what or why." And then I don't interact with him for like twenty minutes, until I'm able to unpack the whole thing, and come to tell him what was setting me off, and what that MEANS. But until then, there is no outward display of emotion, because I don't HAVE an emotion. I have a physiological reaction, of an increase in adrenaline and heart rate. But am I scared? Excited? Anxious? Angry? Until I know, I'm not going to commit to an emotion. Now, if it's something simple, like I spent all day working on something for him, and instead of appreciating it, he tells me what's wrong with it, I'll go straight to anger, believe me. :-) But if there's no obvious cause/response, I have to process. My best friend used to call it the "Error reading drive A" expression -- all of a sudden my expression would be completely blank, the lights were on but nobody was home -- until I could "reboot" and find the correct response. :-)

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Jennifer Dunne
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