I have a love/hate relationship with love. To me it feels more like some intangible but beautiful seeming thing I admire from a distance but when I try and embrace it I always get hurt badly. I fall in love very deeply but don't think I've ever been loved, at least not romantically, or even by my own mother, with the one exception of being a father to my own daughter (which is a different sort of love). So I avoid relationships and at the same time really feel desperately lonely at times and in need of intimate contact (emotionally and physically) and watch romantic movies, tearfully, wishing I could have something like that, but knowing I never have and probably never will.

It's a classic double bind.

So no idea how to answer the poll.