Isn’t it so weird how fleeting emotions can be? One single situation can cause an emotion to change completely. One conversation can cause the intensity of an emotion to increase or decrease. Do we ever feel the same intensity of the same emotion twice? Do we ever love someone at a scale of 5/10 every day? No, right? It changes all the time. One day it can be at a 9/10 and the next it can be a 10/10 or 8/10, maybe even a 1/10. I wonder, if we truly ever feel the same emotion at the same level of intensity twice. Maybe we feel different emotions everyday and we just label it as a singular emotion because we just can’t articulate what the feeling is. I’ll group “happy” and “satisfied” in the same category sometimes but they are truly different emotions.

Psychologically it seems men and women differ in the way they process and express emotions. With the exception of anger, women experience emotions more intensely and share their emotions more openly with others. Studies have found in particular that women express more pro-social emotions – such as gratitude – which has been linked to greater happiness. This supports the theory that women’s happiness is more dependent on relationships than men’s.

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I actually do strongly believe this sentiment. I strongly believe women’s happiness is more dependent on the interpersonal relationships they participate in than men. It may be because of personal experience, but I find that my mood is directly connected to the health of my relationships with my closest people that day. If my brother and I have an argument, or my friend and I butt heads, or my partner and I have an argument – it totally affects my mood. But if all of my interpersonal relationships are in good health and actively enjoyable, I’m in bright spirits all day. I don’t think there’s ever an instance in which an interpersonal conflict has not affected my mood. If I have some sort of conflict, big or small, with someone, I am bothered by it until it gets resolved.

Yes, women are more sensitive to stress, more vulnerable to depression and trauma, but they are also incredibly resilient and significantly more capable of post-traumatic growth compared with men.

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