It occurs to me that verbal overshadowing of feelings may be some of what people are complaining of when they consider explaining to constitute explaining away. It’s a mechanism by which the explanation does, in fact, overshadow the feelings.
It occurs to me that verbal overshadowing of feelings may be some of what people are complaining of when they consider explaining to constitute explaining away. It’s a mechanism by which the explanation does, in fact, overshadow the feelings.