Highly Sensitive Love

Love as an HSP

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Are you a highly sensitive person? Have you ever felt that your love for your partner was greater than you perceive their love to be for you?

First off, what is an HSP? A Highly Sensitive Person. VerywellMind.com defines it as:

“someone who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli. Some refer to this as having sensory processing sensitivity.”

In other words, we feel things to an intensely sensitive degree, especially emotions. It’s also possible that an HSP person is someone high in Neuroticism in the Big 5 Personality Traits. The Big 5 traits can be remembered by the acronym OCEAN.

• Openness to experiences
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism.

Neuroticism is defined on VerywellMind.com as:

“characterized by sadness, moodiness, and emotional instability.1 Individuals who are high in neuroticism tend to experience mood swings, anxiety, irritability, and sadness”

What this means when all is said and done is that empathy is strong. I will feel for fictional characters as though they were real people. I will love…