Definition: a personality construct characterized by the subclinicalinability to identify and describe emotions in the self.[1] The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.[2] Furthermore, people with alexithymia have difficulty in distinguishing and appreciating the emotions of others, which is thought to lead to unempathic and ineffective emotional responding.[2]

* Anyone else have an SO with this condition? Sometimes the lack of sweet words and affection can get to me, but I know he genuinely loves me. Just hoping someone out there understands what it is like dating someone like this. he has even said he wouldn't cry if I died, not because he's a dick (although it did hurt, and I think he probably would anyway), but because he has never cried over a death and it's obviously correlated with his condition. and before you ask I've brought up concerns about lack of romance and affection and he says he's working on it and I can tell he truely is so im not mad at him over this and we are working through it just like he helps me work through my depression and anxiety. it just feels like such an odd situation sometimes, I feel so much yet he feels so little.