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What do you do when there is no love in your life?
6 Lessons in Learning to Live Life Without Your Loved One
- Surrender: As long as you fight the feelings or the reality that your loved one is gone, the longer you will feel pain.
- Know that you don’t have to ‘get over it.
- Lean on people who care about you.
- Take care of yourself.
- When the grief pops up, let it!
Can you live without affection?
Just as lack of food, water, and rest have their detrimental effects, so too does the lack of affection. Specifically, compared to people with less skin hunger, people who feel more affection-deprived: are less happy; more lonely; more likely to experience depression and stress; and, in general, in worse health.
What happens when you feel unloved in a relationship?
When you feel unloved, you may actually be experiencing low-self esteem. If you don’t believe that you’re worthy of love, you’ll have a hard time believing anyone actually loves you. Maybe your partner loves watching the Home Shopping Network and scoffs at you every time you want to watch baseball.
Do you feel like “Nobody Likes Me”?
A recent U.K. study of millions of people found that one in 10 people didn’t feel they had a close friend, while one in five never or rarely felt loved. So, while we may feel alone in thinking “nobody likes me,” we actually have that in common with a staggering number of people in the world.
Do you feel like you don’t fit in with everyone else?
Human beings are a social species, and yet, every one of us feels, on some level, like we just don’t fit in with everyone else. A recent U.K. study of millions of people found that one in 10 people didn’t feel they had a close friend, while one in five never or rarely felt loved.
Do you feel like you don’t belong in this society?
Sadly, the society we live in is giving more and more importance to primitive instincts and material needs. So it makes sense why individuals capable of deep thought may feel like they don’t belong here. If you are a deep thinker, then you probably know what truly matters in life.