Can Empathy Be Learned?

Or is it something you’re born with? Or not.

I just had a great chat with one of my best friends and she asked me my opinion about whether empathy is something you’re born with or whether it’s something you learn.

She had been thinking about it because she developed strong feelings toward a guy she has been casually seeing and she knew the depth of her feelings was not mutual. He liked her, and he enjoys sex with her, but she felt a deeper love bond that was really messing with her head — so she decided she needed to communicate that…