Developing Sensitivity: FOF 13

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, midnight

b'Today I\\u2019m sharing an emotionally devastating period when Martha, a woman I lived with for three years, left me, saying she needed a break. In my immaturity I failed to give Martha the calm and loving reassurance everyone seeks. Martha was suffocating. Trapped inside a one-sided relationship whose future had never been clarified. When Martha left I fell apart. Resolving to remedy my deficiency by better understanding the fairer sex I began an intensive crash course to find my missing sensitivity. Searching Martha\\u2019s bookshelf, I studied two of her books: The Bleeding Heart and the Art of Loving.'