Cultivate Empathy and Understanding

Tactical empathy demonstrates understanding to influence outcomes. This approach works because:

• It creates psychological safety for communication
• It defuses negative emotions blocking rational thinking
• It separates people from problems
• It b...

Due to the partner's hardships accessing empathy, he or she could consider incorporating cognitive empathy.

Intellectualisation, a defence mechanism, may allow the person to think logically about another person's experience and analytically show th...

Empathy is the ability to understand and share others' feelings, crucial for successful relationships. Individuals with high levels of empathy have better social interactions and lower risk of rejection.

Struggling to see things from others' perspective or respond ...