How do you know you are loved?
We all have our own personal criteria for deciding what's what, and what's real, especially those things that are ephemeral in nature, or non-corporeal, like emotion. Like knowing when we are loved. We rely on indirect cues and clues to be sure of something that has so many counterfeits and substitutes, that springs so easily from wishful thinking and fear-based feeling, that is identified and defined so variously. For many of us, much turns on the question of love: of truly loving, and truly... Sign in to see full entry.