Sunday Fireside: Beware of Emotional Contamination

If life came with warning labels, one should read: “Beware of emotional contamination.”

Emotional contamination occurs when the feelings/mood that were created from one event “pollute” another.

You think you don’t like the tone in which your wife asks you a question . . . when really you’re peeved from a bad day at work. You feel like you’re irritated by …