Why highly sensitive men stop sharing (INFJ / INFP)

Lightbearer's Library · Aug 21, 2026 · 18m · transcript

Sometimes we finally find the courage to tell someone what we’re going through, and somehow we feel worse after the conversation than we did before. Not because they meant any harm, or because their advice was necessarily wrong, but because perhaps what we really needed was simply for someone to listen.

I’ve been thinking about why we give advice when someone shares something difficult with us. Maybe sometimes it comes from compassion. We don't want to see someone we love suffering, and feeling helpless can be uncomfortable. So we reach for a solution.

But when we're the person on the other…