The fact that you felt shut down is completely contrary to the goals of the weekend.
When you are in a lonely marriage, your spouse may want sex as much as ever, but it makes you feel sad, shut down, and even angry when you try, because you feel that there is no emotional connection there.
I feel really shut down by the whole situation, and I have for years.
But, some of the time this truth telling came out in anger, I think in retaliation of wanting (or needing) to shut that person back down as we feel so shut down by their question or statement.
"I want to look more at obesity… that's an area that I thought I need to know a bit more about…as soon as you go down that path, parents put barriers up and you can feel them shut down because they just don't want to hear that their child's overweight" (nurse 13).
"It's a nice feeling," Corson said when asked how it has felt to shut down whoever he has been matched up against in the postseason.
We'll tell our stories: this is the situation I was in, this is where I felt myself shut down, this was the edge of my comfort or knowledge.
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"When you feel shame, you shut down.
Why we feel tight and shut down with a person we love.
