Emotionally Unavailable Men 🚩🚩

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At the core of it, emotional unavailability is the inability to express emotions in healthy ways. Either the person may be very guarded with their emotions or may express emotions erratically — lashing out in anger and later regretting it, for example.

Rather than expressing themselves constructively or being open when someone expresses a desire to know how they feel, people who are emotionally unavailable tend to find emotions triggering. This results in them becoming defensive or shutting down completely as a “fight, flight, or freeze” response. Those types of impulsive nervous system reactions are easily set off among people who’ve experienced trauma,

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