How to Deal with Emotional Immaturity

Book excerpt: Emotional immaturity is a great threat to developing a good human relationship. It is basically a situation in which an adult behaves like a child. As a child grows, it is expected that the child develops not only physically and psychologically, but emotionally too. A mature person is someone who is emotionally mature as he is able to understand other people’s viewpoint, empathetic to others, control his behavior, and be able to stay in good terms with others. Emotional immaturity may result from an individual’s innate personality, negligence from parents during their formative years, traumas in the past, or upbringing. It takes a conscious effort to develop maturity in an emotionally immature adult. Whichever may be the cause of immaturity, this book is a concise guide for emotional maturity and ways to deal with immature people, especially in a relationship. You will learn tactics for emotional intelligence to shield yourself from emotional trauma, and also control a person with emotional immaturity.