Your trauma is not a calling card: the most common emotional mistake on first dates
There are first dates that start with a coffee, a drink, or a light conversation about travel, work, or music. And there are others that, within a few minutes, have already entered into a traumatic breakup, a complicated childhood, a mourning, a toxic relationship, or an emotional wound still open. This tendency to suddenly share very intimate or painful information before there is real trust is known as floodlighting.