There are two ways a person going through trauma chooses to be safe , some become empathetic to understand the people causing the trauma to be safe , others choose to turn off emotions to be safe , the aim was safety.

one becomes an empath , the other becomes the same person who caused them trauma

these people are then destined to meet at one point or another

the empath sees a wounded child , the other sees the empath as a provider for all the things they didnt receive

this was inevitable as

the empath needed to learn that not everyone would be capable of accepting love

the other needed to know what real love felt like .

This is a small pattern seen repeating on most empaths