3 Signs You Use Emotional Maturity as a Defense Mechanism
Emotional maturity in naming and regulating feelings does not ensure true intimacy; intimacy requires vulnerability, emotional exposure, and sharing unresolved feelings.
Marriage requires emotional maturity, self-awareness, healing, character, wisdom, and spiritual depth; weddings cannot prepare individuals for the lifelong responsibilities of married life.
Love Is Blind's Joe Ferrucci Doesn't Identify As a Man-child
Joe Ferrucci called off his Love Is Blind engagement due to mismatched communication, personal hesitations, and a need to improve emotional maturity and drinking habits.
Long-term marriage requires effort and aims for wholeness over happiness; aging brings maturity, less need to be right, and greater desire for connection.
