(Potentially) Unpopular Opinions, Jinxes, and Horcruxes Thread

[popobawa4u]

Since there has been some interest and fun with unpopular opinions, I made a topic for what is probably my most unpopular opinion about interpersonal relationships.

Shake it down, if you like!

Intimacy - WTF is it? -or- empathy vs apathy vs telepathy vs sympathy

Perhaps the most difficult and contentious thing about my life, values, and interactions has always been the apparently obvious fact that emotions are completely internal. People can communicate about what and how they feel, but this is still separate, since there is no direct experience of another’s emotions. Most people who I have ever discussed this with react to the notion with extreme distaste and even visceral horror, offering that the notion strikes them as cynical or misanthropic. Equati…