21/07/2025
Be careful about having relationships with people with no emotional intelligence.
Because no matter how kind-hearted, loyal, or emotionally available you are, it will never feel like a real connection. These people don’t understand emotions—yours or their own. They will misread your vulnerability as weakness, your concerns as attacks, and your desire for communication as nagging. They will take everything personally, twist even the most innocent comments into criticism, and make you feel like the villain just for expressing how you feel.
You’ll constantly find yourself walking on eggshells, afraid to speak your truth or share your needs. Your feelings will be dismissed, minimized, or mocked. Instead of being met with empathy, you’ll be met with defensiveness or silence. They won't be able to have a calm, constructive conversation, because they view every discussion as a threat. They lack the ability to self-reflect, to take accountability, or to see things from your point of view.
You’ll begin to question your own reality, wondering if you're too sensitive or asking for too much. You’re not. You're just trying to build something meaningful with someone emotionally unequipped to meet you there.
And slowly, you’ll lose pieces of yourself in the process—shrinking to keep the peace, overexplaining just to be understood, and apologizing for simply having emotions. You’ll feel unseen, unheard, and deeply alone, even when you're standing right beside them.
The truth is: emotional intelligence is not optional in a healthy relationship—it's essential. Without it, there can be no true intimacy, no real partnership, no lasting love. Only confusion, miscommunication, and pain disguised as connection.
So be careful. Because love without emotional intelligence isn’t love that nurtures you—it’s love that slowly erases you.
