{"id":30629,"date":"2013-06-26T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:57:04","slug":"when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When someone is upset, don&#8217;t deal with the issue, identify the emotion.&#8221; Blair Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in conversation with a friend and he asked, &#8220;what emotion are you feeling?&#8221; I was surprised I couldn&#8217;t readily identify it. I love it when friends ask me questions like that, seeking to clarify for both of us exactly what we are talking about, making sure there are no misunderstandings down the road over something not addressed in the moment. Ya gotta love a conscious male. \u00a0I&#8217;m thrilled when someone communicates so there aren&#8217;t flareups months down the road, leaving you wondering WTF is so hard about having an honest conversation? \u00a0Werner Erhard \u00a0pointed out that all upsets involve incomplete communication. \u00a0I can dig it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&#8220;When someone is upset, don&#8217;t deal with the issue, identify the emotion.&#8221; Blair Singer&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=&#8220;When%20someone%20is%20upset,%20don&#8217;t%20deal%20with%20the%20issue,%20identify%20the%20emotion.&#8221;%20Blair%20Singer&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-someone-is-upset-dont-deal-with-the-issue-identify-the-emotion-blair-singer\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in conversation with a friend and he asked, &#8220;what emotion are you feeling?&#8221; I was surprised I couldn&#8217;t readily identify it. I love it when friends ask me questions like that, seeking to clarify for both of us exactly what we are talking about, making sure there are no misunderstandings down the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30641,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions\/30641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}