Do you consider yourself to be "emotionally tough"?

"I'm not the type to get my heart broken,
I'm not the type to get upset and cry,
'Cause I never leave my heart open,
Never hurts me to say goodbye.
Relationships don't get deep to me,
Never got the whole in love thing,
And someone can say they love me truly,
But at the time it didn't mean a thing."
- From the song 'Cry' by Rihanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMP1oqPTto

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Emotional intelligence seems to require a person to keep his or her composure in difficult situations and circumstances. In your view, is this pretending everything is okay even if it isn't?
#pretense

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

"We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions."
- Salovey and Mayer

"There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked."
— Eric Jensen

"Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think."
- Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way