Googley - I so resonate with this. I spent the first year of my therapy questioning, probing, asking, denying, not believing her answers etc. It was so painful.

What we worked to, and it applied to all my relationships, is that until I learned to love myself, I would never believe someone else could. The void in me could never be filled by someone's words or actions because I didn't know how it felt to see care and love in myself. Once I began to feel it for myself, I stopped relying on others as much to prove they cared and started accepting they do because I was worthy of it. You are to.