So, I don’t like either “virtual hugger” or anything with the word “emotion” specifically in the title - primarily regardless of the lovely and well meaning intentions, I feel that my emotions have been used against me on this site - even if they resulted from past grief and/ir rl trauma, which regrettably has adversely affected a couple of my past games and eventhough I’ve since moved beyond it and tried to make definitely warranted amends for those past transgressions, some people with extremely long memories sadly won’t let me forget my past misteps. So it’s rough for me, as I feel I am experiencing the consequences of those extremely unfortunately past emotional reactions I had, despite the fact that I’vd very obviously changed my ways recently, some people don’t want to let me forget.
So, while I see how people in this thread are presenting this in a very complimentary light, people on this site who objectively hate me, mayview it differently. “Passion” and “empathy” evoke different impressions than “emotion” I think and while I get the extremely clever play on words, I’m not confident that either brilliant mafia play or empathy is what will come to most people on here’s minds as a result of this.
In a nutshell, due to my having CPTSD, I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with my feelings/emotions. The passion and empathy I of course love, the vulnerability and excessive sensitivity to perceived shame and rejection, not so much. :/
