Recent research suggests that empathic concern, or feelings of compassion and sensitivity towards others, motivates people to be responsive towards their partner. In the current study, we argue that partners who feel empathic concern in specific interactions are those who generally feel compassionate love towards their partner. We proposed a process model wherein support-providers high in compassionate love would feel greater empathic concern, which would facilitate an increase in responsive behavior. We further predicted that this responsive behavior would be associated with support-recipients’ perceived partner responsiveness (i.e., beliefs that their partner understands, cares for, and accepts the self). To examine this interpersonal process, we recruited couples (N = 91) to discuss the support-recipients’ personal or relationship stressor. Before the laboratory discussion, we measured support providers’ compassionate love. After the discussion, we assessed support-providers’ empathic concern, responsive behavior, and the support-recipients’ perceptions of their partner’s responsiveness. Objective observers rated the degree of support-providers’ responsive behavior. In line with predictions, we found support for the proposed process model: There was a positive association between support providers’ compassionate love and empathic concern, which predicted more responsive behavior and support-seekers’ perceived partner responsiveness. Findings indicate that people high in compassionate love not only felt more concern and expressed more responsive behavior, but their partners were also able to detect their partner’s concern and ultimately felt more understood, validated, and cared for. The findings suggest a need for future experimental studies that would illuminate causal effects of compassionate love on benevolent responding and perceptions of responsiveness.