Emotional Granularity Saved My Marriage

Learning to articulate a wider range of emotions can lead to better control and relationships

Melissa Petro
Elemental
5 min readSep 24, 2019

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Illustration: Ellie Ji Yang

WWhen our 16-month-old stopped sleeping through the night, my marriage became a battleground. It started shortly after the holidays. After all the houseguests had gone home, instead of an anticipated return to normalcy, our formerly…

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Melissa Petro
Elemental

Writer, teacher. PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer Prize Finalist. Former Little Miss Walton Hills. Follow me on Twitter @melissapetro