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in the same way i have poor ego boundaries, the boundaries of the object of my emotional evaluations is very loose
i other words it’s hard for me to tell whom is the target of positive affect, there is simply positive affect. often i end up crystallizing focus into several discrete individuals tailored to their own particularities, but the impetus is rather undifferentiated
not to say that the causal chain can’t prominently feature a person that also receives the affection back in turn (in addition to other inspired recipients), that paired with compersion are of course the two classic illustrations of the falsity of love scarcity
just that that case is one among many circumstances that can give rise to fondness of heart, and that the reciprocity may be more due to pragmatic proximity than meets the eye