A question for psychology experts, how rare or common is such a thing?

I want to save my nephew, I've been looking after him since he was 14 and until the day he moved out. He's 33 now, but I can't help feeling worried for him because of a strange admission he made.
I really don't know if I did the right thing by pressing for answers since he's old enough to look after himself and has managed to live on his own without any problems but I guess I was too concerned.
He told me that in every relationship he had, (all but one was good) he is almost unable to ACTUALLY FEEL BEING loved by the women who had been in love with him. He says he feels a void in himself because no matter how much he's in love and how much his past girlfriends loved him, he could never feel being loved.

I never heard of people having his problem, has that been documented in the annals of psychology or someplace.

Is it possible anything can be done to help him?

Answers:
There is nothing uncommon about a person being out of touch with some part of their feelings, even to this extreme. So no matter how many times he is genuinely told he is loved it never can get through to him. sounds awful, and like he doesn't have compassion for himself: if you don't have empathy for yourself you certainly aren't going to feel the empathy from anyone else.

This is not an unusual problem, I have had some personal experience with an issue like this years ago (I have major depressive and generalized anxiety disorders, I see doctors for it) and got through it. The only thing I can suggest is to find a psychologist that he feels like he can talk with, this sort of thing is their territory and best left to the experts. And it sounds to me like you're doing a great job being supportive of him. Good luck

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