Posted by:
Amyjo
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Date: February 13, 2019 04:15PM
New insight today watching Dr. Phil. An alcoholic mom who abandoned her three children and now wants them back in her life, hasn't overcome the issues that caused her alienation from them.
What she lacks and is void of is empathy.
Dr. Phil tells her three adult children that empathy in psychology is one thing that cannot be faked or mimicked.
For all the people in yours/my TBM or elsewhere world that are empty vessels, it's best to keep your boundaries. Because empathy is either there or it isn't. When it's the people that should be there for you but are incapable of it are the very ones you need to distance yourself from.
I know with some of my own family, I feel safer drawing and maintaining boundaries. Not because I wanted to per se, but from necessity.
Knowing that a person cannot fake or mimic empathy is a revelation, because if someone were to try they give themselves away as the bad actors that they are.