Understanding your emotional triggers will not only help you to rationalise the way you’re feeling and deal with it accordingly, but it can also help you to improve communication in your relationship, because it’ll be easier for you to vocalise where your feelings are coming from, and what you need from a relationship.

And this graphic by artist and mental health advocate Dominee Wyrick is a great place to start if you want to identify what your emotional triggers are. Inspired by a post she saw on social media from the Gottman Institute, Wyrick created a graphic she titled “What Triggered Me”, which lists a number of triggers which might help you identify what you’re feeling in your relationship. The phrases that feature on the graphic include “I felt a lack of affection,” “I felt I couldn’t speak up,” and “I felt trapped”.

This clever graphic will help you to identify your emotional triggers in relationships