One important thing to make a relationship work, is when both people have emotional intelligence. When one person lacks emotional intelligence it can make the relationship a little harder. Ronald E. Riggio Ph.D., a contributor writer for the Huffington Post has a list of 13 signs your partner lacks emotional intelligence.
- Unable to control emotions
- Clueless as to your feelings
- Can't maintain friendships
- Always has a "poker face"
- Is emotionally inappropriate
- Can't cope with sadness
- Always misreads your emotions
- Is emotionally "tone deaf"
- Can't really be sympathetic
- Has no volume control
- Is completely unmoved by emotional movies
- Trivializes emotions in general
- Doesn't get the dog
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