Consequences of too much empathy

Is there such a thing as too much empathy?

Yes.

• If you felt sadness for everything that is wrong in the world you would be rendered nonfunctional.
• A nice mix of caring and not caring is the way to be. This is the way most people are.

And the big one. I believe it is possible that I’m with Susan for as long as I have because we complement each other. She has issues, I empathize with her issues. I feel her hurt and get some subconscious sense of purpose out of helping her.

I guess I may never know if that’s fully true. I’m not even sure if I’m all that empathic generally speaking, I expect codependency may also a major factor in why we ended up together.