Everyone needs touch, not just children/infants. I'm sure you were very helpful. I didn't learn it was okay to touch/be touched either until I was nearly 50! My stepmother was getting senile and when she'd stay with me sometimes she would not wake up well in the morning, would have a hard time getting out of bed. One morning I just lay down next to her and started rubbing her back and the memories of being a child and all times she had rubbed my back then, etc. came back and it really felt good and I'm sure did both of us good.