One of the more puzzling aspects of the way we're built is that our emotional development does not necessarily or automatically keep pace with our physical growth. We can be 55 on the outside and four and a half in terms of our impulses and manner of communicating just as we can be on the threshold of adulthood physically, while an emotional sage within. To assess our own and others emotional development, we can make use of the deceptive question illustrated below which can quickly get to the core of our underlying emotional age. There are three methods which indicate emotionally immature behaviour. We might grade ourselves on a scale of one to 10 according to our propensities. Firstly, we might sulk. That is, we simultaneously get very upset while refusing to explain to the person who has upset us what the problem might actually, be. The insult to our pride and dignity feels too great. We are too internally fragile to reveal that we've been...
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