You know, Argo, just because you feel a certain way doesn't mean the world owes you a particular response. Yes, your feelings are real and valid and so on, but so are other people's. Your feeling x doesn't take precedence over someone else's feeling y. You might feel hurt, but by no means does that mean others are obligated to stop feeling whatever they're feeling and attend to you instead.

This isn't to say your feelings don't matter. They do matter. To you. It does not automatically follow that they matter to other people. Your desire to be soothed is not more important than someone else's desire to not give a ****.

What I'm saying is, Your feelings are your problem, Argo. Nobody else's. So maybe stop being so relentlessly self-absorbed and do something proactive instead of waiting around for external validation. Nobody's going to do it for you.

-Beavers