When I was several years younger than I am now, an old friend whom I had know for ages told me that he and his therapist had been discussing emotional age. My friend asked me, “What do you think the average emotional age is?”
I thought about my experience of most people’s emotional ages and then tentatively guessed, “7?”
My friend was delighted with the “accuracy” of my guess but really, can emotional age be measured? And how did his therapist get this information? Also, what emotional age was I if I was so pleased about being “right”?
If you search the internet for “emotional age,” there are lots of tests for measuring it, although I doubt that the average test result is 7. Also, there’s this definition:
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Can you tell my emotional age by the images I am choosing to share today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “emotional age” on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who are here for this emotional age post, including YOU!
