Validating
What is Validating?
You offer words and gestures that confirm the other person's value and worth. Affirmation is not flattery — it is honest recognition of what is genuinely good in someone. It helps people feel less alone in their effort and more willing to keep going.
When you might feel validating
Validating is a specific form of encouraging, which itself is a type of supportive. You might experience this feeling in situations where supportive is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define validating.
Emotional Hierarchy
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Open Relationship Dynamics WheelRelated Emotions
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In key moments, you put the other person's needs ahead of your own without resen...
You step in to buffer the other person from harm — whether emotional, social, or...
You hold careful watch over this relationship and the people within it. Guarding...
You are the kind of presence on a team that lifts others up and makes them belie...