The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

I have interviewed, conducted surveys, consulted with, and gathered questionnaires from thousands of people, I have found that both my own life and my marriage make infinitely more sense to me now. More and more, I can love and respect both myself and my husband, different as we are. In‍

partner-tests, along with the second pair of tests, which involve another inherited trait—sensation seeking—also discussed in chapter 1. By the way, just as many men as women are born highly sensitive, even though women are stereotyped as being sensitive to subtleties and men as being tough a

, awareness of subtleties, the intense emotions. I saw these as acceptable surface manifestations of a terrible, hidden flaw I had been aware of all my life. From my perspective, by some miracle he loved me in spite of it.

In other ways we are hardly total opposites, of course. Nor is this book only about love between a highly sensitive person (HSP) and a non-HSP. Much of it is about HSPs l

Art is great when under pressure. There’s no one I’d rather have in a crisis;