Here’s why emotional maturity, insight, self-control and communication skills can sometimes mask a deeper fear of closeness.

An essential sign of emotional maturity is the ability to maintain healthy and secure relationships with others. This is ...

Assessing someone’s level of emotional maturity isn’t always easy. Some undesirable behaviors don’t immediately present themselves, and the early days of a relationship don’t require much emotional ...

As a psychologist, one of the biggest sources of chronic unhappiness I see in people’s lives is being married to someone with low emotional maturity. I hear stories like this all the time: At the ...

“Grow up!” he roared before he let out a string of expletives. And she wondered how much more growing up she had to do. She had thought herself mature long ago, but sometimes she thought that he could ...

Assessing someone’s level of emotional maturity isn’t always easy. Some undesirable behaviors don’t immediately present themselves, and the early days of a relationship don’t require much emotional ...