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The threats of being emphatic
While empathy can make both you and the ones around feel better at times, there are also important dangers worth taking into account:
- Empathy can often lead to unjustified anger
- It can cause guilt and thinking that your own happiness has come at the cost or may have even caused another person's misery.
- it can result in a great amount of fatigue.
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- Empathy is a cornerstone of a healthy, connected relationship.
- However, men and women actually want different emotional payoffs from each other.
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