There has always been an effect where I’d feel my crushes inside me. For example, one crush loved flowers, so I started loving flowers, too. Or when one was vegan and went out with her, it was hard for me to eat meat even when I was by my own.

[MickeyCheeky]

Yeah, I'd say it's empathy.. or perhaps it's because they remind you of that person, and you try to be respectful.

I wouldn’t say it’s about respect, but about some sort of need I lack.
I can feel devastated when I have no relationship. Proof? If I have a crush or date, my moods are cured. But when it breaks, I fall hard. Although there was one time wehn a crush did not go out with me and managed to maturely talk to her about our feelings and we felt so much better seeing each other. And I personally felt better about the relationship after the conversation

[Sunflower123]

It is empathy. Do you consider yourself a Highly Sensitive Person?

Respect sounds cold to me, like a boundary to the relationship. I prefer emotional exchanges. I may be respecting naturally, but the term still sounds cold to me.

I don’t know. My second therapist told me “everyone is sensitive, it’s just that everyone has his own sensitivities”.
As for me, I don’t like labeling myself much

I feel so dependent on this relationship. I've been going through a tough time. It doesn't feel like anything sexual at all. My heart is reviving as she flows there. She loves to help me if I need. I think we have feelings towards each other. But I am the one in need of help, not her. I don't know what kind of feelings are those. I feel them in the heart and while they take a portion of my tasks, they make me feel so much better as I am depressed about studies.
I don't know whether she has feelings for me or not. She may be empathetic. I always make sure to show her I am aware of her own feelings - such as when she's feeling sick.
I just don't like it when I am dependent on her, although I just really love that feeling inside me. It's not the dependency, but her who makes me feel good.

well for me, i was not raised with a lot of anything. not a lot of exposure to music, almost none to films and tv. it feels like they were restricted becasue my father made fun of all of those cultural things. so i had nothing, and even now i have a lot of anhedonia, as a result of that, and as a result of depression. i think i am incapable of liking something on my own. i may like it but there is little attachment to it. i don't care about it.

so for example with music, i may enjoy a type of music, but generally i am neglectful of it, or i ignore it (can't think of the word.... imagine that i am a mother who does not respond to a child's distress). but if someone else tells me they really like a song i will latch onto it even if it's not really my type. for example, i was reading a fan fiction, where Sherlock (Holmes from BBC Sherlock) goes through a tough time, and the writer recommended the readers listen to "stop crying your heart out" by oasis, which, apologies to those who like it, is a bit bland to me.

but i listened, and sometimes still do, listen to it on repeat, because it makes me feel close to : a) sherlock and the story world; b) the author of the fan fic. So i would not say it is empathy for me, but some kind of crutch for me to feel close to someone, and use them to help me form a personality (I'm defining personality as a person with desires, dislikes, in general, not a depressed husk of anhedonia, which i am).

so now the object, the horrible song, is important to me through that person, and this is the only way that a thing could ever become important to me.

that's what i think. maybe it was a bit relevant to what you wrote?