wounded heart
Love's painful aftermath
A wounded heart is one that has suffered emotional injury, typically from loss, betrayal, or unrequited love.
The phrase treats the heart as the seat of feeling, capable of being hurt like flesh: She carried a wounded heart long after the divorce.
Someone with a wounded heart may be guarded, grieving, or slow to trust again.
- heartbreakCrushing emotional pain
- achePersistent dull discomfort
- bruisedInjured beneath skin
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- painBodily or emotional distress
tears · cry it out · betrayal · grief · longing · shattered · broken · tender · scarred · emotional scars · sting · raw · vulnerable · bleeding · love · loss · mend · pick up the pieces
- heartbreakheartache, heartbreak, dumping, lost love, unrequited love
- heartsvalentine, Cupid
- Heart Termsheartache, heartbeat, heartbreak
- love allegoryCupid, rose, arrow, dove, Venus
- betrayalbackstab, betray, betrayal, traitor, backstabber