What does it mean to you to be emotioanlly mature?

Question

We all know emotionally immature adult people. Whiners, complainers, temper-tantrums, intimidation and rudeness. Fault finders and shallow thinking.

What does emotionally mature mean to you? Give me an example of your own emotional maturity.

Answer 1

I think emotional maturity is all about perspective.
I think questioning your own emotions- why something made you feel that way- where did you get that emotion- and realizing that emotions are taught and not developed freely is emotional maturity. we are all trying to be individuals and never realise we are basically the same people but we dont share the same life experiences. We need to keep talking to eachother and try to understand that our views and emotions are all different perspectives.

Answer 2

Emotional maturity involves many factors in any evaluation a person makes about themselves or anyone else. Environment, upbringing, and so forth and so on. "Simply" put, those who are very mature and stable emotionally did not get that way from reading a book, nor having it given to them on a silver plater, they EARNED the ways they are through endurance and tolerance. Of such, am I. I have been through "3" marriages, on my "4th" have bought and had or lost 3 houses, been on the merry-go-round of emotions so much "so," that NOW the bad ones are "experience" which have MATURED the ways I handle any emotion sent my way. Emotional maturity comes with AGE, and EXPERIENCE, and the art of not giving in to the ones that come in bad times. At 54 years of age, there is nothing emotionally I have not been through in life, and part of maturity is knowing how to handle GOOD as well as BAD emotions in our lives. Many lack this ability and intstead, DRINK, take DRUGS, commit suicide, kill someone, and others just whine up insane. So you see, there are alot of factors relating to how a person matures to handle and keep emotions in check in their lives and it's never EASY...............

Answer 3

i think it means having integrity, empathy, and responsibilty. i think it also means being confident (JUST confident, not arrogant or anything like that). i think all these things combined make an emotionally mature person. but i guess i'd have to say: having life experience, having made mistakes and gone out on a limb. i think it is necessary to mature. cause we learn from mistakes. many immature people are tht way cause they dont want to make a mistake or they do not learn from their mistakes. they blame mistakes on other people and other such tactics that do not help them learn and grow.

personally, i think i still need some growing up, but an example of me being emotionally mature would be trying to accept my boyfriend's wishes even when i dont like them and not trying to manipulate or force him into prematurely going to the next level in the relationship. I am trying to see things from his p.o.v. and trying to empathesize with him without manipulating him. I THINK what i am doing is right, even though it is tough, cause i want more commitment, but i do not want to resort to immature ways of dealing with this.

Answer 4

Emotional maturity means accepting your feelings and dealing with whatever issues in your life occur in an adult manner. My boyfriend recently broke up with me and I have tried to put it behind me and move on because if I didn't deal with it maturlly I would've been an emotional wreck. I really learned alot about myself and that i am a stronger person than i realized.

Answer 5

When you run into the Super Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and when you head to check out, you realize there is no express lane open. You then look around and now notice there is only 2 or 3 registers open with about 15-25 people in each line, each with heaping carts trying to maximize every inch of that cart they even balance 6 packs of can soda lined up on the very top edge of the cart, placing 3 cans on the inside of the cart and 3 cans on the outside of the cart, all the way around! That is why they buy the 6 packs instead of the 12 packs in the box, because they cannot split and balance the 12 packs on the top edge like that, and they need more space inside the cart.

The cashier with the blue highlights in her hair and matching numerous facial piercings is scanning at a snails pace with this blank stare on her face, totally oblivious to the mounting lines forming and still scanning at the only speed she knows how.

Finally, there is only one lady in front of you with looks like about $600 worth of crap in her cart. She stands there patiently watching the cashier scan each item and this process takes a good ten minutes or so. Almost all of it is finally scanned, and you look at the customer and notice something odd, you realize that is the biggest purse you ever seen. You do not think anything of it, then the cashier hits the magic button, the total button. Now the customer removes her purse off her shoulder and starts to unbutton and unzip what seems to a never-ending amount of compartments. She now has to start removing things from all those compartments to find something to pay for her order with. Finally she looks like she has found it, you are thinking thank god this is over, then you see it coming out, almost like slow motion, your are trying to look but not be to noticeable, then you finally see it, and your heart just sinks, it is what you thought it was…..a checkbook. Now the game starts all over again, more unbuttoning, more unzipping more searching because she needs a pen, you would figure this lady would of got all that ready while the cashier was scanning her order for the last ten minutes. What did she think the cashier was going to do, right after she scanned the last item? Just say “Have a nice day, thanks for shopping at Wal-Mart” and let her walk out the door. I am sure this lady has purchased something before it was no big surprise that she had to pay for the items.

Finally the cashier scans your items, and says that will be $15.79, you swipe the card hit debit enter the pin and you are off and running almost all in one motion. On the way out you spot a friend walking in, you say hello, chit chat a little bit and proceed to tell them about the last 30 minutes of your shopping experience. You walk out of the store 5-10 minutes later and jump in the car to get the hell out of there. You are trying to leave the parking lot and this one person in front of you is driving so extremely slow, you are getting closer to the light at the exit and my god this car is so slow and right as you get two car lengths away from the light it turns yellow, you know you can make it no problem at all, even a few cars that are behind you can still make the light. But to your horror the car in front of you stops hard, you hit the breaks and almost slam into them, you look around and notice it is the lady with the compartment purse that just slammed on the brakes in front of you.

So being emotionally mature is not wanting to push that ladies car into the traffic whizzing by at 60 mph and burning the Wal-Mart down to the ground…………

Answer 6

I don't know the actual definition, but for me I would think emotional maturity would mean that I'm experienced and understand the whole spectrum of human emotion and it's facets, and how to deal with every shade of it and to be able to lead others to deal with theirs in away that helps them survive it

Answer 7

I suppose that this simply means not acting like a baby. Being able to control yourself without having childish outbursts. It also means being less egocentric and more responsible and sensitive to others.

Answer 8

It's unattainable?

It means being able to accept most things without a need to retaliate or give guilt trips.

Answer 9

1. Treating everyon the same.
2. Being polite to people you do not like.
3. Extended fuse (temper).
4. Having good manners.

Answer 10

it means that you can handle things like break-ups without freaking out.