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When A Conversation Doesn't Meet Our Expectations

This time of year we can have an increased level of social encounters and sometimes you open up with another person hoping to feel understood… and instead you walk away feeling worse, the expectation from the conversation simply wasn't met. We can mistakenly believe we are being too sensitive, but this isn’t the case. Often, it’s due to a mismatch between what you needed in the moment and what you received. When someone rushes, minimises, deflects, or pulls away, your nervous system registers the moment as unsafe. The ACC flags danger, your body contracts, and the vulnerability you offered has nowhere to land. That mismatch leaves an imprint, not just about the interaction, but about the feeling you brought into it. This can create a double emotional bypass unless we begin to be with both the original feeling and the one that emerged from the mismatch. Does this feel familiar in any of your conversations?