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Default Sep 03, 2011 at 02:17 PM
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I have been fortunate to have had people who truly have cared about me despite my being unable to escape from existential loneliness. No significant other has been able to fill the void. The thought of validation as the role for another to play in my life has never occurred to me.

Love yourself.
I keep reading this about love yourself. How do you love yourself? I don't hate myself but I don't love myself either. I'm indifferent.
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Default Oct 07, 2011 at 09:08 PM
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To SadNyNJ, There is the classic self help-psych book--The Road Less Traveled. It has a lot of info regarding love and what it can and can not mean to an individual. It's written in lay terms. The issue of validation was a theme in it.

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Default Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM
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I'm 55 and have been married since I turned 18, it's only natural. I have told my wife I will never live alone, even though she knows she would never be replaced.
I can not envision living alone without her, and pray I never am faced with that problem.

That being said, the only person to actually validate the fact I was sexually assaulted by a female social worker has been other females, never another male. Like most other women, men don't get it. Reference the recent riots at Penn State Univ.
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