Emotional Immaturity or Emotional Abusiveness: Are They the Same Thing or Different?

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:27.8	I want to start with a mini discussion about emotional immaturity or emotional abusiveness.
0:41.7	Are they the same thing? Are they different?
0:45.1	And the reason I want to spend time on that is a lot of you are experiencing somebody being either one or the other,
0:55.0	and no matter which one it is, it's both miserable.
1:00.0	That is that what they have in common.
1:02.0	Other than that, they are distinct in certain ways,
1:06.0	and I'll describe that after I read the letter,
1:08.0	which stimulated me deciding to do this. All right. What's the
1:13.8	difference between somebody being emotionally immature, emotionally abusive? I've been married 23 years
1:19.6	to a wonderful man, whom I respect, admire, and love very much. We've had a wonderful and loving marriage
1:27.0	overall. We have two kids, 17 and 14.
1:30.4	Side note, my 17-year-old has some special needs and anxiety panic disorder. I'm starting to see a
1:38.6	pattern with my husband in the way he deals with difficult, stressful situations and circumstances
1:43.6	in everyday life. This has progressively
1:46.9	gotten worse over the past eight years. When he gets really stressed, anxious, fearful, worried,
1:56.2	frustrated, boy, that covers a lot of turf, doesn't it? He shuts down, pulls away from everyone.
2:01.6	He often gets mad and angry because things are out of his control and he can't fix it.
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