I tried searching the concept online but I’m not finding much that isn’t related to AI.
What I mean by emotional privacy is the right to have your own emotions and feelings without being required to express or disclose or discuss them with others.
In my own experience growing up, if there was an emotion or feeling that I didn’t want to discuss with my mother, or I was showing a certain mood without wanting to talk about it, she’d tell me to talk with her, or try to needle me with questions, or try tickling me, or try giving me “you can’t hide anything from me” eyes, or withhold certain forms of affection. I learned at a young age that my mom and my family needed to have their fingers in everything I felt and thought, and I needed to be an open book or they’d work to pry me open.
Fast forward to today, I have anxiety about not spilling my guts to close friends, like I’ll get in trouble unless I give them an inventory of my internal landscape.
Has Dr K ever talked about this? I’m learning that if people ask me what’s going on with me or try to pry into my life when they’re not welcome, I can say “I have no comment and choose to not share any other information at this time“, but I’d love to hear anything Dr K has discussed on the topic.