The Top 4 Challenges Empaths and Clairscentient’s Face In Their Romantic Relationships (and How to Overcome Them)

If you are an empath or an intuitive Clairsentient (meaning someone with clear feeling, who interprets energy and information psychically through their feeling senses), then you can feel the emotions, vibration and energy of other people and places as if it was your own. 

Empaths and people with Clairsentient abilities are amazing and have a super power. But unless you have done the inner work to master your energy, and heal your own blocks it can cause havoc in your most intimate relationships and could be why you keep ending up in unhealthy and unsuccessful relationship dynamics over and over again. 

So if you are an empath or intuitive soul looking for love, want to avoid red flags in dating or want to deepen your current connection with any relationship in your life then keep on reading ……

These are the top 5 Challenges that Empaths tend to face when navigating their romantic encounters:

1: Prioritizing Their Needs Above Yours

Because Empaths and Clairscentient’s are highly attuned to the feelings of others, they may find themselves pandering to the needs of their partner and ignoring their own. 

They may struggle with asserting themselves, speaking up or confrontation because many times they can feel the response from their partner and will do anything to avoid experiencing negative energies. 

Empaths are very sensitive and easily overwhelmed so they often do as much as they can to “keep the peace” and not “rock the boat” and can fall into people pleasing tendencies so they save themselves from a barrage of emotions from their partner. 

It’s important to start speaking up and expressing your own needs in your relationship. It’s healthy for both people to be as honest and authentic with each other and learn to be understanding and compassionate to both experiences.

If you keep things to yourself then you aren’t able to have a well balanced relationship with healthy communication, which will ultimately lead to challenges down the line. 

2. Becoming Their Therapist 

Empaths and Clairscentient's have an innate ability to feel and understand what their partner is experiencing. Many times to degrees over and above their partner and so deeply that it feels like it’s their own. 

Because an empath can be so compassionate to how their partner feels, their ability to sense challenging emotions can sometimes turn their dynamic into the therapist and the patient instead of partner and partner. 

This can create an inequality as the empath can often take on the role of feeling responsible for making their partner feel better and for the emotions they are feeling. 

This can lead to them attempting to soothe, or help talk your partner out of their state. 

Your partner is responsible for how they process their emotions, and if you feel they are unable to do that by themselves in a healthy way then perhaps suggest they seek some professional support. 

It’s important as an empath to not go into saviour mode for the emotional states of your partner that may trigger you. It is also important to be in a relationship where BOTH parties have the ability to talk about how their emotions and behaviour impact each other from an understanding and neutral space. 

3: Fear of Intimacy 

If you are an empath then you may have come to a place of stagnation in dating and have inadvertently chosen to stay away from or avoid deeper connection or physical or emotional intimacy altogether. 

If you are so energetically sensitive you may fear that you will be overwhelmed or absorb your partner's feelings, thoughts and emotions (which may not always be positive and of the highest vibration) if you spend too much time in close proximity or exchange energy through sex. Physical intimacy is a super highway to exchanging information through DNA. Letting someone into your body is allowing someone into your energy field and your soul.  

Absorbing someone else’s traumas, beliefs and emotions during intimacy can be overwhelming to the system, create energetic blocks in your life and leave you feeling unsure of yourself, tired, depleted or experiencing feelings that don’t feel like yours like sadness or anger.  

It’s important to take your time to get to know someone before becoming intimate with them, and curate the ability to ask yourself if what you're feeling is actually yours as you may be carrying some of your partner's baggage now too. 

4: Lack of Self-Trust 

As a sensitive Empath and Clairsentient, unless you have managed to clear and master your own energy to be able to discern and understand what is yours and what’s not. You may not trust that you are able to make the right choices when it comes to choosing an aligned partner because you feel everything from everyone and can’t wade through what energies are true and what are false. 

So you may fear making the wrong choices and in turn taking on low vibration energies that aren’t yours and aren’t a match for you. 

The more you learn to connect to your own inner wisdom and intuition, learn effective  energy clearing and protection techniques to know that you are perfectly aligned in yourself, the more you will begin to work that trust muscle and be able to manage any heavier emotions that may come your way as you navigate your dating experiences and your relationships. 

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