None of us can ever be loved enough — by our parents, by our children, by our husbands or wives.
Julia believed that if she could just be loving enough to Kent, he would feel loved and filled and would be open and loving with her.
"I love any writer who is serious about getting to the deep heart core but is loving enough to want you to get there, too," he said.
Bentley credits sodomy with having resolved the lifelong psychosexual problems that resulted from not being loved enough by her father.
Derided by the mechanical toys that he finds himself with, the Velveteen Rabbit has an aching desire to transformed and consoles himself with the wisdom he has learnt that toys can become real when they are loved enough.
What is enough food, working out enough, enough money, enough influence, enough status, enough clothes, being loved enough, enough accomplishment, enough fame or, as in my case, enough chocolate caramels?
While her relationship with her mother eventually changed, and offered Shelly a feeling of being loved enough, the bitterness about not being her mother's favorite remains stuck.
"Every night, when I'm telling [Beneatha] about what Walter is going through and when is the time to love someone the most, I think of how the African American man has not been loved enough except by his own people and even then in a way that was not always a good love.
If this sounds like a small child, it's because the small child in Alicia is still suffering from the unhealed wounds of not being loved enough as a child.
One main cause of depression is when people don't feel like they are loved enough.
