8:26pm November 7, 2014

“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation”

Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. — “The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog”  (via zsrmx)

I don’t know if it’s worth anything at all, on a personal level, but I love you. In the friendship and “I care deeply about the well-being of this person” sense of love. I think about you far more often than I communicate with you. And I know I do a bad job communicating love, sometimems, especially to friends, but I do love you, if it makes even the slightest difference at all.

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