Why does being empathic feel like a Catch 22?

If you are a highly sensitive person or an empath, there have probably been at least a few times when you’ve felt that you have an unsolvable problem on your hands.

You don’t want to stop being empathetic, but your empathy seems to keep pulling the wrong people towards you. You give people the benefit of the doubt, and then, get entangled with narcissistic and controlling people.

That wouldn’t ever happen to someone who had drawn a hard line in the sand.

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