emotional conflict
Heart versus head
Emotional conflict is the inner tension that arises when competing feelings, desires, or loyalties pull in different directions.
You might feel love and resentment toward the same person, or want two things that can't both happen: She felt emotional conflict about leaving her hometown for the job.
The term appears in psychology and everyday speech to describe this state of being torn.
- mixed feelingsConflicting emotional responses
- ambivalenceConflicting emotions coexisting
- conflictedEmotionally at odds
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- regretSorrow over past actions
heart versus head · torn between · unfinished business · melancholy · love hate relationship · moral dilemma · miscommunication · self-doubt · resentment · identity crisis · cognitive dissonance · guilt · emotional dependency · shame · bottled up emotions · indecision · inner turmoil · passion
- inner turmoilinner turmoil, inner struggle, self-doubt, indecision, turmoil
- inner conflictinternal struggle, inner turmoil, torn feelings, ambivalence, mixed emotions
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- romantic longingyearning, pining, unrequited love, ardor, infatuation
- Petrarchan poetryCanzoniere, Laura, Petrarchan sonnet, Italian sonnet, octave
- Victorian Hysteriafemale hysteria, hysteric, madwoman, neurasthenia, nervous disorder
emotional conflictpeace of mind
State without anxiety
inner peace · serenity · equanimity · inner harmony · contentment
emotional conflictpeace of mind
State without anxiety
decisiveness · single-mindedness · wholeness · acceptance · reconciliation
emotional conflictmutual understanding
Shared agreement between parties
emotional connection · rapport · reconciliation · sympathy · fellow feeling