Neil Coburn Relationship Therapy
for Individuals and Couples

Thoughts and Advice

Empathy versus Decency – How to Show You Care

Empathy starts from a very different place from decency. Decency is about offering the ‘right’ thing. It tends to be practical and solutions focused. Empathy however is about understanding your partner’s experience and feelings, and responding to that in a much more personalised way. Decency is about offering things that apparently ‘anyone’ would want and therefore might be obvious to the partner, while empathy needs to be explored in a much softer way.

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