Empaths can be incredibly compassionate, supportive partners.
Yet being an empath also sets you up for unique challenges with lovers.
Many empaths like to have plenty of spaceenergetic, emotional, and physical.
If you’re a single empath and loving it, congratulations!
you’ve got the option to maintain your need for space while enjoying a successful partnership.
If you’re already in a committed relationship,mindfully creating spacefor yourself might improve the relationship.
Unconsciously prioritizing a partner’s wants and needs in an unbalanced way.
This is how empaths can fall easily into people-pleasingin a romantic or any other relationship.
Empath pro tip:Practice asserting yourself more in the relationship, voicing your needs and wants more regularly.
Practice makes anything easier over time.
Remembering that prioritizing your own wants and needs is healthy for both you and your partner will help.
Keep in mind that relationships are about compromiseno one person should dominate.
Getting lost in a partner’s emotions instead of having clear emotional boundaries.
You may be carrying some of your partner’s emotions to an unhealthy degree.
Even intense joy can be draining when you’re too much in another’s emotional experience.
Keeping that in mind is powerful.
Have empath-friendlymethods for processing your own emotions, so you know what’s yours in emotional territory.
Tuning in to a partner without understanding observation and witnessing.
Sometimes tuning into a partner is the nourishing, healthy, supportive option.
Other times it’s the opposite, especially if the empath is already feeling drained and overwhelmed.
Trying to manage, contain, or change a partner’s emotions.
Consider that your partner’s emotions are their own business.
If a lover’s emotions make you overwhelmed or uncomfortable, that’s usually your business.
With awareness and tools, these self-sabotaging patterns can shift dramatically and positively.
