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  • Humans were never meant to take care of babies as couples or alone.

    Research suggests that given the tradeoffs of our evolutionary path, we had to shift towards a collective parenting (call it tribe, clan, extended family, etc.)

    The modern “individualization” of the person is what has convinced us that such parenting form is “normal” and bearable, and that if you feel overwhelmed, there is something wrong with you.










  • I would argue that the average person refers to a mix of both when they use the word “empathy”:

    • caring about the other person’s pain
    • being there for them
    • trying to see things from their perspective
    • wanting the other person to be better and wondering how one could help.

    Classifying one as “a terrible problem” and the other as acceptable seems (at least) a bit pedantic. Specially when it comes to language, a dynamic phenomena in which words mean what (the majority of) people deem them to mean.

    my two cents