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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge
I've always felt very uneasy around people who are touchy-feely, emotive types, but I could never say why. After two years with T, WHAM! I realized that it's a reaction to their unpredictability; up to age 4 my father was at home, emotionally unstable and often violent. Today, people who seem far more influenced by emotions than reason really make me anxious. But now I know why, and to me it is worth a lot.
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Hmm. There are many touchy-feely, emotive people that I have felt uneasy with (therapist #3 is one example), but some that I like very much, and enjoy those qualities in. I see it more as my dislike of what I call imposed intimacy as contrasted with consentual intimacy. (Therapist #3 was big on imposed intimacy.)
But the touchy-feely, emotive vs reason preference is in fact one of the things addressed in the book I mentioned in the post I sent a few minutes ago. So that might possibly be helpful to you.