We are born knowing nothing. Most beings come into this world with physical instincts such as breathing and movement. Even though most parents eagerly await the arrival of their new addition and they love their child before it’s even born, no one comes out knowing they are loved. Love is something we are given. Feeling loved is a blessing and a gift but it is not something every being is given. There are so many circumstances in life that create a situation where a person is not given love or given the correct kind of love. I don’t want to go into traumatic situations. The ones that cause horrible retributions on lives. I want to talk about simply feeling loved in general. I’ve talked before about growing up in a house that places people in categories and that I was placed into the “needy” category. It took me a long time to realize that I was very different from the other members of my family. Not in a negative way, I just needed to feel things differently than the rest of the people in my home. As an adult and now a parent myself – I know my parents loved me. That time in my life growing up on a different love level did affect me then as well as my adult life. It had such an effect on me that I had to reason with it and investigate how to handle how I felt about then and how I feel about it now.