Your shoulders are still tight.Your chest feels heavy. You ’re restless, drained, or oddly wired for hours after an argument. Even when the situation is resolved, your body seems stuck in the moment. That lingering tension isn’t imaginary — and it’s not a personality flaw. It’s your physiology remembering the stress of conflict. Your body doesn’t just experience arguments emotionally. It experiences them biologically — and sometimes it holds onto that activation longer than