Male and female brains handle emotional stress differently and you can feel it when you’re under pressure.
When you’re under stress, sadness and anger don’t work the same way in your body.
Sadness slows you down. Anger speeds you up. Your heart rate rises, adrenaline kicks in, and your body gets ready to act.
In many men, stress shifts quickly into that fast, action state. In many women, stress stays longer in a slower, inward state. That’s not aggression. That’s your stress system switching into action.
Your body isn’t trying to sabotage you. It’s trying to regulate stress the fastest way it knows how.
