High sensitivity in partnership & friendships
One of the greatest gifts of highly sensitive people is empathy and the ability to empathize with other living beings. Feelings are experienced more intensively and a form of symbiosis in relationships develops more quickly, i.e. it becomes more difficult for you as a highly sensitive person to recognize which feelings and needs are your own and which are those of the other person. This applies equally to partnerships and friendships. Highly sensitive people usually adapt unconsciously and want to create harmony, but usually forget what they need themselves.
When highly sensitive people open their hearts and enter into a partnership, they usually do so with very strong feelings and also fall in love faster. Due to their special characteristics, they also feel more and more intensely. Therefore, it is basically a very great enrichment to be in a partnership with a highly sensitive person. The same applies to friendships. These are based on values such as trust, appreciation and reliability. Disappointments are therefore pre-programmed, since "normally sensitive people" cannot enter into this form of deep connection in this way and are often overwhelmed. The nice side, on the other hand, is that intense, deep connections can be made and both sides benefit from it.
You may also know the shadow sides:
- You love more intensely than other people and you also grieve extremely when breaking off a contact?
- You perceive a lot of what your partner or your friends feel?
- You try everything to please others?
- Your friends often turn to you with problems?
- In groups you are overwhelmed and want to withdraw?
- You permanently try to create harmony by adapting?
- It is difficult for you to say "no" and you are afraid of offending others?
- If you then set yourself apart, you are not taken seriously or dubbed as demanding?
- You have the feeling that other people do not respect your boundaries?
- You lose yourself in your relationship?
- You sense when someone has a problem or something is wrong?
- You don't know exactly what your needs are anymore?
- You find it hard to let go?
- You forgive much more than other people?