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When a highly sensitive man grieves what nobody sees (INFJ / INFP)

Sometimes the hardest things to grieve are the things nobody else sees as a loss.

I’ve been thinking about how, as a highly sensitive man, you can grieve things that are difficult to explain to anyone else. A dream that never happened. A childhood you didn't get to have. The life you thought you might have with someone. A part of yourself that you had to leave behind. Even a world that once felt more familiar.

And when the people around you don't recognize those things as losses, it can become even harder to understand your own grief. You may start wondering why you're still feeling it, or…

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