What is the Secret to a Happy Relationship?
The secret sauce in a happy relationship isn't magic; it's empathy.
- Feeling empathy is the ability to imagine what someone else is thinking and feeling.
- Unlike sympathy, which means feeling compassion or pity for another, empathy is putting yourself in the other person's place and seeing the world through their eyes.
- Sympathy is "I'm sorry that happened to you"; empathy is "I feel your pain."
- Empathy means caring as much about your partner's well-being as you care about your own, and it can make the difference between a healthy relationship and an unhealthy one.
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