Feeling unworthy of love is a very common curse for victims of childhood emotional neglect. It might be helpful to contemplate that you don’t need any reason to be worthy of love other than existing. We are all worthy of love no matter how damaged we may feel. It’s also common to be afraid and not want to depend on anyone. We depended on love when were children and didn’t get it. So of course feeling the need is going to be scary and not worth the effort.

Sometimes I go so far as to declare that I’m not worthy of love and that there must be something wrong with someone who claims to love me. “I’m damaged goods! How could you possibly love me?”

Working on it in therapy has helped me a lot.