When Being Seen Hurts: Love, Childhood Wounds, and the Path to Healing
There are moments in life when someone enters our world and, perhaps for the first time, truly sees us. They look beyond the surface. They witness our strength and hold space for our tenderness. Their gaze, gentle and present, touches something inside that has long waited to be met. For many of us, this can feel like love.
But what happens when that person is unavailable? When the connection, though profound, cannot fully unfold? And why can this experience awaken such a deep longing, even pain?
To begin to understand this, we must go back—not to the moment we met them, but much further, to the early chapters of our life.