We tend to deflect their emotions in other ways, too. Someone might be really pissed that their bae ditched them at a nightclub to go snort coke in a graveyard, but might only complain about the way their bae slurps their soup. Or they might not be able to express the scope of their gratitude or love for another person, so they might just lavish way too much praise on that person’s shoes. You can use the awkwardness of expressing real-life emotion to offset a lot of the awkwardness of capturing emotion in fiction.
