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In reply to the discussion: Empathy has to flow both ways [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)23. It does not have to flow both ways.
I have shown empathy to people I know would never return it. That is not a metric that is important to showing empathy. Showing empathy is personal, not collective.
I have seen and shown a lot of empathy around DU. It's not needed across the board.
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I am wrestling with something that has nothing to do with you or what you have said
Cary
May 2018
#19
Empathy doesn't require, nor should a truly empathetic person expect, reciprocation or
EffieBlack
May 2018
#28
Then why do you expect empathy to be returned and feel slighted that it didn't happen?
EffieBlack
May 2018
#39