Emotional messages are used every single day in everyone’s lives. They are a huge part of having a normal relationship. Three Major obstacles in emotional messages are societal and cultural customs, fear, and inadequate interpersonal skills. Societal and emotional customs are one thing that can get in the way of people expressing their emotional messages. In the United States, people are usually taught not to show their emotions to others, especially men. This is called the, “Cowboy Syndrome.” When men show the Cowboy Syndrome they do not show expressions to any feeling, regardless of what it may be. The man is supposed to be, “strong but silent.” For example, he would never show any kind of soft emotion, be scared, or feel sorry for himself.
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They are surrounded by men all day long at work, to they are most likely being compared to them all day long too. Sometimes, the women might even have to work harder to show that they are equally needed in the business that they are working. For them to show emotions would be kind of proving a stereotype that women are soft and emotional. Hey have to show that their emotions do not get in the way of their work. Fear is the next obstacle in emotional expression. Sometimes people can be afraid to show their true feelings. A few reasons why people may be scared to show expose their feelings are fear to make yourself vulnerable to attack, fear to hurt another person’s feelings, which could make you feel guilty, and fear to cause conflict. First, when people are afraid to make themselves feel vulnerable to attack, they could be hiding their feelings from another person because they don’t want to be turned down. For example, in a grade school class, a boy has a crush on a girl. But instead of telling her that he likes her, he picks on her because he is scared that he is going to be rejected by her if she doesn’t feel the same way. If he was to show weakness to her, the whole class could laugh at him because she doesn’t like him
They are surrounded by men all day long at work, to they are most likely being compared to them all day long too. Sometimes, the women might even have to work harder to show that they are equally needed in the business that they are working. For them to show emotions would be kind of proving a stereotype that women are soft and emotional. Hey have to show that their emotions do not get in the way of their work. Fear is the next obstacle in emotional expression. Sometimes people can be afraid to show their true feelings. A few reasons why people may be scared to show expose their feelings are fear to make yourself vulnerable to attack, fear to hurt another person’s feelings, which could make you feel guilty, and fear to cause conflict. First, when people are afraid to make themselves feel vulnerable to attack, they could be hiding their feelings from another person because they don’t want to be turned down. For example, in a grade school class, a boy has a crush on a girl. But instead of telling her that he likes her, he picks on her because he is scared that he is going to be rejected by her if she doesn’t feel the same way. If he was to show weakness to her, the whole class could laugh at him because she doesn’t like him