feeling small, ashamed, unable to hold one's head high

to feel / to sense / to experience

shoulders

cramped / narrow / contract / tight

(pertaining to width) narrow, confined / (pertaining to area) small / (golf) short

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(idiomatic) to feel inferior, to feel small

everything