Can he feel empathy?

My new therapist asked me an interesting question today. Does my husband feel empathy? My immediate response is yes! But I keep coming back to this question. I know that lack of empathy or inability to feel empathy is a classic sign of narcissism. And I have ruled that out in my mind a few times. And I do think he can feel empathy for others, like is someone loses a loved one or if someone falls and gets hurt, or cancer, etc.

But those are also experiences that don’t involve him. Is it the same when he is involved? Like is he able to understand how his acting out or his misuse of money or his lying impacts me? How it makes me feel? Or does he understand it, but the feelings he is trying to cope with or escape, do they just matter more? Do the “good” feelings or release he is trying to gain, are they just more important? Do his feelings just always out weigh everyone else?