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Old Jul 23, 2012, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by velcro003 View Post
stopdog--do you think you lack empathy towards others? you said you had to learn it by watching others' reactions. would you say you genuinely care for someone, or people? because i can't see how you can truly care for someone/something and not have empathy.
You can genuinely care about someone even if you don't have empathy. My H claims to be non-empathetic (and from 16 years of observation, I believe this is true). He has shown me love like no other person in my life. He loves very few people and is ambivalent about the rest; but once he starts loving someone, it never dies.
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Thanks for this!
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