“Feel Sorry For” vs. “Empathy”

I published this to Medium yesterday, where it was curated into the Life and Relationship topics.

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“You’re just saying that because you feel sorry for me.”

“You just [action] because you feel sorry for me.”

“She [did good thing] because she felt sorry for me.”

I’ve heard several variations of this phrase.

Today, I want to share what I think “feel sorry for” means and its close relationship to empathy, sympathy and pity, which share roots.

Do you share the emotions of another?

When someone said to me recently, “You just feel sorry for me,” I answered, “No, I empathize. I don’t feel sorry for you.”

There’s a difference:

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