A Christmas I May Never Forget

I have always been emotional and highly sensitive. And it has never been okay. I have always had very strong feelings, and it takes little to evoke them. I love love. I love crying. I love engaging my feelings and dwelling in them for awhile. Yet, in all my adult relationships, my emotions have been just something my partner has reluctantly tolerated as part of the greater package. This part of me has always been dismissed. It has…