Successful relationships are affected by our Emotional Intelligence or EI. How we deal with our emotions and the emotions of others is a product of our conditioning. Our conditioning causes us to habitually grasp onto people and situations when we feel our happiness depends on them and to push them away when we believe they will negatively impact our freedom. However, it is possible to transform these habits.
The first step is to become more self-aware.
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