Well, you can! But, it would be hard because the word Alexithymia means, for example, a person with a lot of anger and emotion. So, if you like or love someone with Alexithymia, it would be your opinion to love him or her at all.

Objective is the medical term meaning without emotion.

The term "alexithymia" is recognized as a word in psychology and refers to difficulty in identifying and expressing emotions.

This means the you are low on the EQ scale. It might also be alexithymia, which is the sub-clinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self.

I beleive that addiction becomes a vicious cycle going from one distructive addiction to another. Thus being unable to distinguish between real affection and self gratification. I believe that it is a distructive behavior that a person aquires unkowingly for self preservation, thus being shielded from getting hurt. People with Alexithymia may be percieved as selfish and self centered, and with good reason; however, I beleive that the real issue here is trust.