Emotional Hygiene

 I found a good analogy for how I think about emotions. Emotions are like fingernails. They are going to grow, regardless. They can sometimes be useful. Some lifestyles maintain unkempt fingernails, other people just routinely groom them. 

It made me think, while men are generally stereotyped as being messier about grooming/housekeeping than women, it may be said that women have messier emotional grooming/housekeeping than men.