"Of course they’re not going to understand how you feel if they’ve never felt it. Why..."

“Of course they’re not going to understand how you feel if they’ve never felt it. Why would they sympathize with something that hurts you if it has never hurt them? You can explain it all you want. You can drag it out, repeat yourself, cry, curse and try to get them to understand, but they never truly will. If something hurts you but doesn’t hurt them, why would they understand? You can’t keep going on thinking that everyone will understand or that apologizes can change things for the better, because that’s not how people work. You are not stupid or over dramatic for feeling a certain way and then expressing it and only getting confusion or misjudgment in-return. If people don’t know how you feel, or have never known how you feel and don’t even try or possibly never will, why would you try so hard to make them understand?”

- “When I asked my father why the person I loved couldn’t understand why my feelings were hurt,” - CB