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Emotional baggage is an everyday expression that correlates with many varied but similar concepts within social sciences, self-help movements, and other fields: its general concern is with unresolved issues of an emotional nature, often with an implication that the emotional baggage is detrimental. As a metaphorical image, it is that of carrying all the disappointments, wrongs, and trauma of the past around with one in a heavy load.〔Arnie Kozak, ''Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants'' (2010) p. 57〕 ==Adult life== In adult life, emotional baggage comes to the fore in relationships in two main forms. *First, there are the often negative expectations created by ''previous'' relationships, perhaps of an abusive nature—a kind of bondage to the past that can contaminate new and potentially more positive interactions.〔Otto Hines, ''Why Women Act Out'' (2011) pp. 29-30〕 This may be particularly apparent in a second marriage where, in Virginia Satir's words, “shadows from the past are very real and must be dealt with by the new marital pair”.〔Virginia Satir, ''Peoplemaking'' (1978) p. 181〕 *The second type of memories contributing to adult emotional baggage are recurrent bringing-up of the history of the ''current'' relationship, with the result that minor problems in the present become overloaded by negative currents from earlier times which cannot be resolved or set aside for good.〔Joseph J. Luciani, ''Reconnecting'' (2009) p. 37〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「emotional baggage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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