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Old 05-06-2014, 06:12 PM
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Katiekate
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Originally Posted by Needabreak View Post
From Merriam Webster Dictionary:

Compassion -- sympathetic to others' distress, along with a desire to alleviate it."

This compassion, or desire to try to alleviate my partner's distress, is exactly what caused my own life to derail. And it didn't do him much good either.

I am very careful about my tendencies toward compassion now.
I don't have a desire to alleviate my x's distress, I can't.

I meant no harm here, I retract my posts.
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