Studies show that emotional validation effectively communicates acceptance and care for others. ADVERTISEMENT Defensiveness is not beneficial to communication at all.
When you invalidate how someone feels, they automatically defend themselves. They think they have to justify their emotions since you seem to dismiss them.
On the other hand, emotional validation puts those defenses at ease. Thus, it allows for healthy, open communication with better emotional intelligence.To have healthy, open communication, people must feel relatively safe talking about the topic at hand.
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