Hi;

I don't know if i'm a sociopath, I hope i'm not... but that isn't what this thread is about. I am worried I cannot feel love. I felt sexually attracted to people before, I care about my brother, and I was really upset when my great-grandmother died...

Yet, I don't know if I can feel love. I want to love, I want to be able to love and socialize with other people, I want to feel sympathy and empathize with animals and people alike.

All the times I had girlfriends, I was nice to them yes. I am nice to everyone, yet I don't like talking to people. I didn't feel love... I cared about them, but I never had sex with them or just wanted them for sex.

When I have to outside activities with my family instead of my brother, I get grumpy and bored, yet I'm perfectly content with watching over my pets with my brother or being with my brother.

My family nags me a lot(used too, I think) so that could be why? But I don't want to feel that way! I care about them and can get worried for them yes, but at times I felt I hated them and said horrible things about them when they upset me, I never shown violence or aggression though...

I am starting to help them out more, I walk my dogs and feed my pets among doing other things voluntarily. Though I want to love them, I want to love.

As for my empathy issue; I don't feel a lot of empathy, in fact I feel more empathy for talking anime cats than really anything else... I did feel empathy for real life cats, someone who's mother passed away, and for Anne Frank and her family + the other families in the Frank house.

I also tend to share my items or food a lot, I started giving my people food and let others use my items or watch TV. I don't lie much anymore and want to be more honest.

Yet I just cannot feel much empathy, I want to develop empathy... Yet if I am a sociopath, i'm afraid I cannot develop it. I cannot cry at sad scenes in films, I get violent thoughts.

I want to feel empathy and love, I am not a violent person and I don't fit many of the checklists of being a sociopath or psychopath. Yet I cannot feel much love, remorse, or empathy. All things I want. I want to be a "normal" person.

I want to be a social person who has all requirements to be good, I am kind and tolerant of most people as long as they don't harm others. Is it possible for me to feel empathy, love, and remorse?