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An Emotion-Based Autoethnography for Pain of Relationship Dissolution
| e-ISSN | 2982-6845 |
| p-ISSN | 1226-4474 |
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to express and analyze the relational pain and emotional pain suffering in therelationship dissolution. This study focused on helping counselors who faced clients with relational pain andemotional pain to empathize and understand internal pain rather than correcting behavior. This researchwas conducted through emotion-based autoethnography. For this goal, three data were collected: my ownjournals, self-reflection journals, and recording conversation with other person. The collected data wereanalyzed on the basis of emotion and behavior, and then were categorized into three types: ‘Self: inrelationship’, ‘Self: in emotion’, and ‘Self: in integration’, and my writing was based on emotion. Thisstudy is reported that someone is disconnected in relationships could a strong relational desire, but theycould feel pain of loneliness and anxiety by experiencing the failure of repeated relationships. In thesecases, they have relational difficulty for fear of rejection; despite their strong desire to make relationship.Therefore, counselors need to search for clients’ positive parts through a safety environment andsympathetic approach and to develop their relational problem solving abilities. this study suggested thatcounselors would contribute to understanding those who are left alone, suffering from their relationship,and helping them to return to the relationship through counseling.