| Emotional safety is vague when it isn't there, and it's | | | | When emotional safety is there, you know it. When |
| ever so palatable when it is. What is being emotionally | | | | it's not there, you may not know it until you are a |
| safe? And how does this serve as an indicator...an | | | | part of what keeps it going. |
| internal red flag of a potentially destructive | | | | How might the lack of emotional safety be an |
| relationship. | | | | indicator of a less than positive relationship? |
| What is emotional safety? | | | | The lack of emotional safety is one of the primary |
| Emotionally safe is a feeling that your inner most | | | | internal indicators of a potentially abusive relationship. |
| thoughts, feelings and experience are, and will be, | | | | It may be as subtle as not honoring your privacy, |
| honored as one honors themselves. You need not | | | | your boundaries, your interests, your experience, |
| prove, nor impress; you just simply are. When it is | | | | your feelings, you for who and what you are. |
| present you feel open, even, at ease, and fluid with | | | | If you are in a relationship in which your emotional |
| the spontaneity of a healthy child. | | | | safety is not absolutely palatable, be mindful that you |
| The absence of being emotionally safe carries an air | | | | may be walking on some potentially dangerous |
| of guardedness, and an uneven tempo of highs and | | | | waters. If you are perplexed as to even knowing |
| lows, of opening up (possibly for the wrong reasons) | | | | emotional safety in a relationship as something |
| and closing down often without awareness of the | | | | tangible, then you may want to better understand |
| tendency to do so. | | | | the red flags of abusive relationships. |