the.com/emotional baggage
The luggage that never left the carousel, so you just started wearing it.
means The accumulated hurts, fears, and patterns from past relationships or experiences that a person carries into new situations, often without realizing it.
from A 20th-century figurative extension of 'baggage,' which comes from Old French 'bagage' (related to 'bague,' bundle), via the general sense of gear a traveler lugs along. The emotional sense took hold as psychology entered everyday speech, borrowing the image of suitcases to describe the unseen weight of memory — origin is more conceptual drift than one coined moment, so no single inventor gets the credit.
- origin era
- term popularized in therapy-speak by the 1980s
- never packed light
- everyone has some, deniers have the most
- transfer risk
- new partners often inherit it unlabeled
- fix
- unpacking beats dragging, every single time