Emotional intelligence can sound like a trait you either have or you don't. It is closer to a vocabulary — and a vocabulary can be built.
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The loud kind is easy to recognize. The covert kind hides behind sensitivity itself — which is why it so often goes unnamed.
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Estrangement rarely arrives as a slammed door. More often it is a room that slowly empties while everyone is still standing in it.
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It looks like indifference. Usually it's a skill no one was ever taught — which means it can be learned.
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The cruelest part isn't the lie. It's that you slowly start to believe you're the one who's wrong.
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