It is difficult to be emotionally available for others if you are not even emotionally available for yourself.
Ignoring, denying, or repressing your feelings does not make them go away.
Instead, they build up inside you, creating a barrier between yourself and the outside world.
But there are people who need you.
They need you to feel and they need you to feel for them.
They need you to feel for yourself.
You are not obligated to be emotionally available for others, but our lives are often only as deep as our capacity for feeling.
If you choose to feel shallowly, do not be surprised if your experience of life, your relationships with others, and even your relationship with yourself are shallow also.
If you choose to feel deeply, on the other hand, you will at times experience deeper levels of pain, sorrow, and despair, but you will also experience deeper levels of joy, happiness, love, and deeper relationships with yourself and others.