My best friend and I both struggle with self-compassion and started doing loving-kindness practice together for support, but I've noticed that I can generate genuine metta for them easily while they seem to find it much harder to feel loving-kindness toward me, and this imbalance is creating weird dynamics in our friendship.
More people experience this than they realize.
Asymmetrical access to compassion reveals deeper wounds and creates unexpected intimacy challenges.
“Where Are You with Metta — Buddhist loving-kindness?”
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