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I think I have much to give but no one wants to receive it. Then there is the other extreme, the men who may be cruel and have the personality of a door mat. But as long as they are "pretty boys', women will throw themselves at them. It's so #@&king unfair! I agree with AngelGirl. We need others in our lives. I've noticed those who preach "all you need is yourself" are seldom the ones who experience true isolation and actually have be forced to try to practice it. I'm sorry for sounding so angry but I just don't see life as being the way so many people want to believe it is.

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Bingo!!! I too feel that I have so much love to give to others but they don't want it. I just don't get it. I also feel very isolated in life. How can you find happiness from within if you don't like yourself? Where are you supposed to start? I have absolutely no friends IRL. I can't even maintain friendships on the net unless the person is also afflicted with some sort of mental disorder. Others get tired very quickly with my constant cycling and depression. So, where is the positive self image in all that? For me, it takes somebody to give me love and constantly reassure me that they love me because I have a hard time even receiving it from others. It's so foreign for me. My parents never once told me they loved me and my life has been riddled with rejection and abandonment. With all that I'm supposed to find a positive self image and happiness from within? How?