Do you believe each time someone hurts you it makes you more sensitive? Or does it toughen you up and make you stronger?

Rosie, it must make us stronger. I say this because when I was young and impressionable my feelings seemed to get hurt constantly. I can't even remember the last time someone hurt my feelings. I think I'm just not as sensitive as when I was younger. How about you?

In my case it toughens me up and makes me stronger. Years ago I would have said that it hurt me. I have a tough outer shell now and don't let anybody close enough to hurt me. +5

It does both.
It makes us avoid and prevent situations where others will hurt us.
When hurt, we also become tougher and stronger.

I gotten hurt so bad in the past and i still do now and im sensitive as well i cry a lot so I think it makes you weaker.

Yep, It should toughn me and make me stronger and gives me a lot of clues to know how to treat people.

Your suspost to learn from your "lessons in life" but I dont think I learned much untill I got older. I dont know if I was toughend up by hurt or by age and not letting it get to me as much.
For most of my life I was just over sensitive and didnt trust. Im not over sensitive anymore but still have the trust issue going on at times.

What doesn't kill me, makes me numb.
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It is the same in relationships.

I think it makes you more sensitive at first because it hurts you and sometimes someone doesn't know how to react but then it makes you stronger when you know what to expect or if someone keeps doing it over and over again, because you get so used to it happening. It depends on the situation and how they hurt you, if it is physical then maybe more sensitive and emotional hurt or abuse can make you stronger.

Did you learn something from it? Stronger.
Did you not learn something from it? Weaker.

I think it makes you stronger in the end. :)

Makes me stronger. There's the old saying, "That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Of course, that's mostly bunk. Being a couch potato doesn't kill you -- at least not in the short run -- but it sure as heck doesn't make you stronger.

Withstanding insults doesn't necessarily make you stronger either. It depends on how you process them. I try to make a point of considering whether the insult might be at least a little bit true. If it is, no matter how much it hurts to hear it, the critic has made me stronger by pointing out to me something I can change and be a better person for it. If I conclude that they were just venting their own frustration or trying to tear me down for reasons of their own, I can think about what it is in me that provoked that. I might want to reign some behavior in, or in some instances I might want to be even more in your face with it to provoke the anger response that identifies what might otherwise remain a dangerous snake in the gras to give his location away.

At first it hurts. But then overtime the pain wears off, and I guess I have realized that it does make me stronger in the end. It was worse when I was younger, but I have toughened up over the years where most stuff will just bounce off and not bug me. +4

i guess stronger because you'll be "immune" to it the next time if it happens again.

neither.... it gives you more insight into yourself... you can either gain strength from that new insight or destroy yourself with it... it is up to you.

When I was younger, it made me more sensitive on the inside but I appeared tougher on the outside. As I matured, it made me stronger within.

Yeah it's tough but it made me stronger. Still have advantage when we get hurt. hahaha. But ofcourse it's still good if no more hurts just happy life.

Temporarily it can hurt you, but I think it makes you stronger in the long run.

i am called icy for a reason :P +5

When I get hurt it doesn't make me stronger and it doesn't me more sensitive. It scars me then it sticks around as a chilling reminder of how cruel life can be to you. Especially the ones who love you, are the ones who can cause the most pain.