In April we continued to look at conflict and how it can arise from our unspoken emotional needs. We all have physical needs, which we are happy to express, “I need to sleep”, “I need to eat” but we all have emotional needs too, often we are more hesitant to verbalise these. Do we know what they are and do we know how to fulfill them in a healthy way? Or do we eat when we need love, or hide in work when we need to be heard or do other destructive habits in order to try and fill up the emotional need gap. Each of us wrote a list of our emotional needs and then wrote next to each need how we fulfill it – healthily or unhealthily. Often conflict arises when we have an emotional need that is not being met in our lives. Many of us haven’t expressed this need to our partner but can get very angry when they don’t meet the need. In understanding our own emotional needs and communicating them to our partner, friends and family we find a deeper peace in ourselves as we identify and speak the truth and more fulfilling relationships as those around us are more aware of what we need.