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A card or quick text message (and maybe even a sympathy gift) may not feel like ... But of course, you want to be sensitive with your words and think carefully about the situation at-hand.

It's easy to pick up a mass-produced sympathy card from a local store, but writing one with your own personal, heartfelt ...

Sympathy is understanding someone's emotions and empathy is feeling them. Reviewed by Sabrina Romanoff, PsyD Has someone ever said you were being "too empathetic" or that someone else was "just being ...