Emotionally intelligent people naturally take on different perspectives.

Some partners do not perspective-take and label you antagonistic when you are fighting to be understood.

Recognizing your partner's emotional unavailability allows you to believe in yourself.

As an emotionally intelligent person, you tend to think and care about how you impact other people. You dislike seeing other people hurt, so you do your best to be inclusive and conscientious. To understand people better, you try to see things from their viewpoint for a moment, even when they feel differently. This perspective-taking ability may be so automatic that you may not even be aware that you do it. Also, you may assume that everybody does it. But some do not, especially in an interpersonal relationship when being close requires them to be........

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