"You can't hurt my feelings," he says to me without a hint of irony. He repeats it more than once.
I don't have a good response to this, so I don't say anything. To be unable to feel emotional pain is to assume that you don't have feelings to begin with--or that you hold your emotions so closely to your chest--without ever sharing them for fear that they may be injured. It is the antithesis to intimacy. You have to give and give a lot to get any trust or faith in return from your partner.
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