Thrilling and heart-swallowing?

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Hi,Can you look at this sentence?Maybe you feel you already have a very happy home, as I’m sure many do. If you have a good home, you’ll sure want to keep it! Family life can be a little too similar to a roller coaster ride at a theme park – thrilling high points and heart-swallowing drops to low points.Does "thrilling" mean excited and happy? "heart-swallowing" mean discouraged or disillusioned?Thanks

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

No, both mean 'very exciting'.

Stephenlearner · Answer

Thanks for your valuable reply.

From the context after this paragraph, I can see he wants to say family life is changeable; sometimes it is enjoyable, and other times it is bitter.
He likens the family life to the roller coaster, because people riding the roller coaster may experience similar feelings.
So I think, although both periods are exciting, but one is positively exciting, making people happy, and the other is negatively exciting, making people feel scaried, stressful, and eerie.

This is my understanding. What do you think?

I rode a roller coaster a long time ago, so I have forgotten exactly what I felt then.

Mister Micawber · Answer

OK, then: positively exciting and negatively exciting.

Stephenlearner · Answer

Thanks very much.

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