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It Really Isn’t Me, It’s You: Spotting High Conflict Personalities and Emotional Immaturity.

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What are childish behaviors in adults? Someone's psychological or emotional age is often evident in emotional reactions and habits. Signs of emotional childishness include emotional escalations, blaming, lies, and name-calling. Someone who is emotionally childish may also have poor impulse control, need to be the center of attention, or engage in bullying. They Do Not Empathize – An emotionally immature person does not empathize with others' emotions and feelings and may seem self-centered. It is about fulfilling their needs, and they seldom apologize for hurting people with their actions or words. It Really Isn’t Me, It’s You: Spotting High Conflict Personalities and Emotional Immaturity. Many emotionally immature individuals behave like children or adolescents. This may not be intentional, but due to limitations or deficits in their maturity. While most people have their moments, questions to explore in assessing maturity include: Do they act mature in interactions? Do ...