These social habits are seen in emotionally healthy adults and are considered psychologically mature, well-developed, and may be considered to be, to use the very recent catch-phrase, “emotionally intelligent.”

However, you might also notice these to be higher level, more constructive variations of those defenses that we have used in less mature days.  The development of a specific individual parallels the evolution of that of the average person, with a [Read more...] about Mature Ego Defenses

On the surface, you might think the unconscious modeling of one's own identity on another person's character and behavior to be more on the immature side, and based in too much of what the Self Psychologists have called “false self.” However, when done in small amounts, for example, in having heroes even into mature, adult life, or in a deep bonding of the shared identity between two mature partners at [Read more...] about Mature Identification

One of the 4 traits that make a person successful, coming from both an inborn and cultivated gift, and one of the 4 needed Commonalities of Commitment in a mate one seeks for long term romance.

Maturity is discussed throughout Romantic Dynamics, and can be described in various ways:

• The relative absence of pathological narcissism, its opposite, which is a form of selfish immaturity.
• Having what has been called, "high [Read more...] about Maturity