Hmm, someone is sure feeling guilty about not being home with their kids more often. Or maybe they’re feeling guilty about not wanting to be home with their kids more often.

I think that the more vehemently someone disagrees with another person the more likely their disagreement is more of an emotional reflex – a defense mechanism to protect themselves from some stressful memory or feeling.

They attempt to present rational arguments to justify their emotional stress not knowing or wanting to acknowledge where their stress really originates. And that’s when I usually stop taking their arguments seriously.

The more vehemence they display the less they are actually talking about the topic at hand but more indirectly about something stressful within themselves.