In the second option, we face emotionally immature behavior. Inadvertently, being always on the defensive, also hides another element, namely emotional manipulation (Gibson, 2019). If you are in a relationship with an emotionally immature person, you may be repeatedly subjected to demands to violate your personal space. Emotional manipulation involves inducing feelings of shame, guilt, and worthlessness in you as you try to keep those spaces intact. In these cases, it is essential to emphasize that maintaining spaces and boundaries is your right and does not make you a bad person.
5) Depend on others
In order to feel secure, emotionally immature people have dependent relationships with others. They show a kind of discomfort in being alone, as loneliness forces them to deal directly with their thoughts and emotions. Being with others allows them to distract themselves from something emotionally unpleasant that they would prefer to repress. To feel their emotions fully and be introspective, they need adequate emotional maturity.
The ability to reflect on one’s mental and emotional states allows us to know ourselves better. This is how we learn and grow as people. For those who are emotionally immature, being able to understand the way they think and feel emotions could terrify, for this reason, they opt for the simplest solution, which is to “put the dust under the rug”.
Although we are not talking about a disorder, emotional immaturity has consequences and can provide us with many clues about the origin and functioning of many psychopathologies. Emotional immaturity can have significant effects on the interpersonal level, i.e., within friends, love, and family relationships. However, working on the aspects that characterize affective immaturity is possible in order to improve one’s personal balance within the relational dimensions. Overall, it is a growth process that can take place with certain gradualness. Maturity is not a characteristic present or not present, but something that can evolve.
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