My parents did not hug me either Fuzzy. I am continually shocked and horrified by the therapists you have had the misfortune to meet. A therapist would say, "I have no empathy for you" to me and I'd be thinking, "then you are in the wrong profession, get out now." For anyone who does not know, here is a good definition of empathy: "Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position."