I also remind by myself a lot of true love feelings and open heart when dosing arround close friends, but the same feelings seems to be generated arround strangers so I can't trust MDMA empathetic properties any more. I'll be more emphatetic nowadays sober, with a disociative or psychedelic than with a proper empathogen. With those ones I try to combat against the high instead to letting myself lost into the experience and that leads to bad trips. Strange reading this coming from a guy with a long history of heavy tryptamine + disociatives hardcore usage, I know xPI've done shrooms, lsd, salvia, weed, nitrous, dmt & mdma, in that order, over the course of a few years, mdma being the most recent, and I loved every bit of it. Being with my best friends instead of random strangers helped, I think. It felt like the love & respect we had for each other was even more present, we were extremely connected & cuddly, and it didn't feel fake.
I do think it could feel fake if there were people with us who I didn't know as well.