Do other Cancers take rejection hard?

I'm a Cancer and I seem to take rejection really hard, even if its rejection after one date or two dates. I take it personally. I'm wondering if other Cancers feel the same way? How do you handle it and not feel like a failure?

Hell yeah, I take rejection hard. Even the slightly little thing. If he is acting like he like me all day and then do anything that shows that he doesn't, I think everything else he did was playing and the last thing is rejection. I once went on a date with a guy I met online. His picture: fine. His actual body: ugh. Any way he was boring and I tried to keep the conversation going. He said he had a good time but never e-mailed me again. Although I had no intentions of talking to him again, I still feel rejected because he didn't e-mail me.I know that's stupid but so what. Another guy that I really liked took me out once but never offered to take me out afterwards. He said he'd call but didn't. However when we saw each other things were fine. We would still talk for hours but it was obvious to me that he wasn't interested although he never said. Then he moved away. Now 2 years (and 3 men) later, I'm still a little heart broken.

Those damn taurus

Much, much harder when I was younger. I used to find the rejection (real and imaginary) a devastating ego blow.

But now that I am older, not so much. I just became more rational and know that no everyone can like you, that is just life.

As you grow older, you care less abut what people think, and that's good. I wish I was like this when I was younger, but oh well...

Sweetcrab, I know where you're coming from. Thats what I'm going thru now. He said he'd call but I haven't heard from him yet... We went on two dates - a little boring but he was very nice. What I hate more is not knowing if he'd call. I'd rather have them reject me outright instead of keeping me guessing. UGH!

Canserians are selfish...

They?ll take? rejections personally?... but do they take?personally? when they reject others..??

Cut the crap?!

"'Although I had no intentions of talking to him again, I still feel rejected because he didn't e-mail me.'

that's a little bit egotistical,don't you think—"

Not egotistic, It's just that if I had wanted to talk to him again, he didn't call and that's rejection. Makes me wonder what I did to get rejected by him or anyone else. It cuts to the self esteem issue.

Like Sillyputty said, I, too, would rather they come right out and say that it's over or they are not interested. That way I don't have to wonder. I hate headgames. I'm honest. I can come right out and say "I don't want to talk to you anymore" even give reasons if they ask. I would like the same respect. And that kind of rejection hurts a little less. I mean, it still hurts but less than the headgames.

I'm not selfish. I'm very kind and I don't like to hurt peoples feelings. But mine always gets hurt.

Well yeah my feelings get hurt. Thats why I'm asking if other crabs take rejection hard? Don't yell at me, it hurts my feelings... 😢

Okie you're forgiven 😛.

You know, I probably do.

I TAKE REJECTION HARD!

it's not fun to be rejected! And I can pretend I couldn't care less, but then I'm just fooling myself..

Cancers are pains in the rears! They take not only rejection personally but everything else too. My mom's a crab, and how??!! She's always soooo defensive constantly retaliating for slights and offenses that happened only in her head. She always imagines and expects the worst of outcomes. Giving another the benefit of the doubt is nigh impossible for her. After a fight or disagreement, she'll never make the first move to make up cause she scared you'll tell her to get lost. So she waits, and waits, all the while claiming she doesn't care. This is why she has no friends. She scared them all away. She complains constantly about how good she's been to all and how nasty the world is to HER. Every little thing sets her off and she over-dramatizes every body's motives. Sensitive— Yeah, she'S sensitive OK with REGARD TO HER OWN feelings...NEUROTICALLY self-protective is more like it. But for all her touchiness about her own feelings she forgets to be aware of onyone else's. In this regard the crab is highly selfish, indeed. They are sweet if you give them every little request they want. But an inch quickly becomes a foot then a yard then a mile and so on. Soon, you realize that no amount of spoiling is ever enough. Root cause? They felt unloved by mommy so now go around tugging on skirts for attention and acting like babies in general. This pisces says pass on the crab whenever you can. If there are any crabs out there who know all this and have tried to over come it, please write and tell me about it.

OMG! She sounds exactly like me! LOL 😛

GreatWhite,

You are absolutely on the money with your comments. It all goes back to whether mommy loved them or not. If not, they can make the most miserable partners. Always taking and rather giving back the amount they take. Yet, they'll say they are always giving to others but what many don't realize or refuse to acknowledge is that they give with reservation. They aren't as wonderful as they appear. I've never seen such negative energy in my life. Yet, they want to surround themselves with positive people. Neurotic, absolutely. Laughable, absolutely. Crazy, absolutely. In need of counseling/therapy.....Most definitely!

I should have said "Always taking and never giving back the amount they take."

Well MERCURY IN ARIES I agree with you when you basically yell to all the so-called crabby, negative cancers out there to snap out of it since you don't have to be that way just because astrology says you're that way. BUT DEAR MERC IN ARIES you have to be willing to TRY THIS ON YOURSELF to be able to see that while in sounds good in theory to tell one who's different to change, it's easier said than done. FOR EXAMPLE, it's natural for one whose THINKING PLANET is in POSITIVE, I CAN DO ANYTHING ARIES to think the way you do. As an experiment to prove my point, wake up tomorrow and resove to be different, make it a point to be gloomy, negative, petty, cranky, and self pitying. I bet you find it difficult, of course, but DO try. There's no law that says that you have to positive and full of courage owing to an aries influence just because astrology says it's so...LOL!!!

rejection isn't so bad. it reminds me that i'm inferior.