A friend's ex-boyfriend often used to accuse her of "Dealing in emotional currency." While he, he said, used "Intellectual currency." This caused her no end of consternation, the implication being, I think, that the exchange rate betweent he two currencies is not really equal. That he was actually the more reasonable, logical person in the relationship, and therefore, right. Not ruled by passion, or whatever. (Meanwhile, he liked to use his intellectual capacity to argue his way out of what was, in any currency, bad behavior.)
So it was heartening for me to learn in my first week of graduate school, that there is actually an acknowledged phenomenon called Emotional Intelligence. Some people got it, some don't. Sure, I'm in a Counseling program, and it's a bit touchy-feely, but there is some science involved. So there.
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