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15 Aug 2011, 8:51 pm

I'm not really even sure how to answer this. I guess so, but I'm not really sure that I "feel" anything.


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15 Aug 2011, 10:51 pm

When I was a kid, I suppose I felt loved by my mother. As I've gotten older, I've constantly redefined what love means so at this point in time, I can't say I "feel" loved, not even from family members. The word itself confuses me now; I hear it used so often and freely that it doesn't have much meaning to me.


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16 Aug 2011, 12:51 am

I know that people love me, but at the same time I cannot believe that anyone really loves me. I can love other people, barely, but I can never truly accept that people want me in their lives. I think if I wasn't around no one would really mind, and that's probably not true.



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16 Aug 2011, 2:06 am

Never....not even when I was a child.


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16 Aug 2011, 7:11 am

I feel loved very much. Of course I have a simple approach with this. I asked them "Do you love me?" and they say "Yes" or "Of course". Then that's settled. :D Although last time I asked my first son "What is love to you?" He was lost for words (he's autistic like me). Then he said "I'm not sure what love it, but I know I love you." :D

As for me, I didn't really understand love until I was 30, had my second baby and fell head over heel in love with him. Then suddenly I seemed to have grown up, understood love, and loved other people better, too. I still feel maternal love is more "true" than any other form of love.


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16 Aug 2011, 7:37 am

y-pod wrote:
I feel loved very much. Of course I have a simple approach with this. I asked them "Do you love me?" and they say "Yes" or "Of course". Then that's settled. :D Although last time I asked my first son "What is love to you?" He was lost for words (he's autistic like me). Then he said "I'm not sure what love it, but I know I love you." :D

As for me, I didn't really understand love until I was 30, had my second baby and fell head over heel in love with him. Then suddenly I seemed to have grown up, understood love, and loved other people better, too. I still feel maternal love is more "true" than any other form of love.


I agree, the love I feel for my son is unlike any other and perhaps the truest expression of pure love.


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