[TrentCrimmIndependent]

If #### from family doesn't cut deep, then you're probably a robot. Because it's their words that form many parts of you. What many men don't get is that sensitivity is earned. Whereas a lack of it (or a healthy level of sensitivity) often comes from actually being gifted a healthy self-concept during your upbringing.

If you're not set up with the kind of self-esteem through positive reinforcement and met needs in your family/childhood environment to be that person who lets things simply roll off your back (because your self-concept has been decimated by your life at home as well as abroad) then being hypersensitive is a logical outcome to that. Being someone with a thick hide when you've had nowhere you can be/feel safe from insult wouldn't make sense at all. Unless you have a personality disposition that makes you oblivious.

We don't all get the same playing field in life in that way.