Signs your empathy is negatively impacting your relationships
Hindustan TimesEmpathy is an important emotion. Explaining this, Therapist Divya Robin wrote, "Empathy can be the foundation of beautiful connections but it can also become a dark hole - if we use that empathy to over-identify, make assumptions, or lose ourselves. Signs your empathy is negatively impacting your relationships Sharing how empathy can negatively impact our relationships, Divya Robin further noted down a few pointers: Overwhelmed: Empathy can make us feel more. Often when people are talking of their difficult emotions, we find ourselves struggling to be present for them because of the way their emotions make us feel overwhelmed. Assumptions: When we are too empathetic, we start to make assumptions of the way others may feel – this can make us overthink and further ruin the relationship.
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