Ya know, sometimes I wish I was an empath. I don't absorb others' energies, I perceive them but don't mistake it for my own - and often just ignore (I've come to realise it's because if I did, I couldn't do my job. Imagine an oracle absorbing everyone's woes lol). But that's actually a non-perk, I stay in these draining relationships exactly BECAUSE there's no internal alarm bell telling me "caution! Danger ahead! This person's energy stinks" or whatever.

But you helped me realise I can connect with my own emotions instead of ignoring them so much. And this will tell me why I'm staying where I shouldn't so often. There ought to be repressed stuff.

Insightful read! :)