For you, not about you

Some people are immediately defensive and will attack another for words of love misconstrued and taken as an attack on their person. It is not their intention to attack, but the perception of being attacked activates a fight or flight scenario and they naturally fight to protect whatever it is that they are afraid of being exposed about themselves. The vicious cycle will continue at each instance of the empath attempting to “reason at the root” with the apath, with only one way to stop the cycle, heal the connection and move forward. You must explain that you are not saying anything critical of them, you are only providing information for them, not about them.

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