Can you really be too sensitive?

Through my life experiences, I have learned that there is such a thing as being too sensitive to others’ feelings. My opinion is based solely on the things that have happened to me in my life. Some may say that you can never be too nice or sensitive to someone, but I think you can. If you are too sensitive to someone’s feelings, it can result in harming both you and the person you’re being sensitive towards.
One may think that you can’t hurt yourself by being nice to others, but I know that you can. There have been multiple times in my life where I put someone else’s feelings before mine, and a lot of the time it results in me being hurt. For instance, when choosing the visitation schedule for my parents, I based my decision more on how my parents would react rather than how it would affect me. I was more concerned about hurting my mom or my dad’s feelings than I was for hurting myself. When talking to the lawyers, I let my sister talk because I wanted her to be happy, and she knew what she wanted. I thought it would work out better for me in the long run to base my decision on other people’s feelings. Even though everyone kept telling me to do it for myself, I continued to do otherwise. It turned out that they were right. After having the same schedule for two years, I’ve come to realize that I would’ve benefited more if I had chosen the schedule I wanted rather than going along with the schedule my sister and one of my parents wanted. However, I was too sensitive in hurting their feelings and couldn’t go against them at the time.
Not only can you hurt yourself when you’re too sensitive to someone’s feelings, but you can also cause the other person harm when you do so. For example, if you’re with your friend and they have something stuck in their teeth, you have two options. One you can tell them and maybe experience a little awkwardness and save them from later embarrassment. Or you can pretend like you don’t see it because you don’t want to hurt their feelings and set them up for future embarrassment. Both have negative sides. However, in the long run, it would be more beneficial to your friend if you got over hurting being sensitive to their feelings and just told them the truth. Being open and honest with people, even if it means hurting someone’s feelings a little bit, will help both you and the other person in the long run because there is such a thing as being too sensitive to someone’s feelings.