I’ve been thinking about longing lately... Where does our longing for a person, a place, or a situation come from? What does it tell us? To begin with, I wanted to understand longing as an emotion a little better… I had spent a great deal of time researching emotions for my master’s thesis, titled The Connection Between the Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Dysregulation and Interpersonal Communication Styles. What is an emotion? How does it arise? What does it lead t