If you're at like a really high-level job and have to oversee a bunch of people and kind of bite your tongue at people coming to you with their problems and stuff and then you come home to a partner and they talk to you about their problems, you might be less able to be as empathetic and kind and loving.

You may even get a little annoyed with them

because you've spent so much time suppressing your emotions.

And while we're focusing on suppressing or modulating

our emotions, we're less able to pay attention

to others or to do social interactions

which may cause its own problems.

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forcing me to for myself to fit. On this episode of the Multiannary podcast we're talking about

emotional regulation and specifically something called expressive suppression

this is a particular way that we limit our

emotional responses. It's incredibly common. It's something we learned growing up,

but it can have pretty negative effects on our lives if it ends up being the

dominant way that we manage our emotions.

So we're going to be diving into some of the research about that, some related ways of managing emotions, and then

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