Results for “Emotional Labour”

The invisible effort of managing feelings and relationships — usually unthanked.

Comfort someone gives you — or, jokingly, the random object you can't function without.

Small sneaky acts of emotional infidelity that aren't full cheating but still cross a line.

Emotionally calm and in control of your nervous system — the goal state.

A crying Pepe emote with hands raised for heartbreak and emotional moments.

The intuitive emotional energy or atmosphere a person or place gives off.

Opening up emotionally and risking being seen — the brave kind of soft.

So frustrated your judgment goes out the window — playing emotionally instead of smart.

Set off emotionally — either genuinely distressed or, mockingly, mildly annoyed.

Profound, serious, or emotionally intense.

A complete emotional breakdown or reckless meltdown where you snap and stop caring about consequences.

Shocked, rattled, or badly shaken — caught off guard emotionally.

To lose emotional control, or to have an overwhelming reaction good or bad.

Emotionally overwhelmed and out of control — the spiral state.