A number of the same studies, as well as others, indicate that the use of rational explanations for behavior the parent desires, affection, praise, the child's concern for others and appeal to pride all tend to produce children with high levels of internal control and developed moral standards.
For Peggy, I think it's about her own duality: her need for power and authority among men; yet, also desiring male affection.
Don't feel bad for desiring a relationship and craving affection; we need that, it's normal.
My desire for affection from male missionaries — that was neither innocent nor harmless.
Thus, each qualitatively distinct emotional state supported a separate instinct, such as hunger, thirst, fear, aggressiveness, sexual desire, parental affection, and so on.
With strangers, I adopted the servile manner of a concierge greeting wealthy clients in a hotel -- salival enthusiasm born of a morbid, indiscriminate desire for affection.
Many marriages are like Strindberg's plays or Sartre's hell, where what was once love and desire and affection turns to hate, repulsion, sadism.
At its best, "The Kid" captures the grueling heartbreak of trying to love anything when the world doesn't love you enough, of trying to summon desire or affection in the absence of any healthy context for either one.
The most common reasons for engaging in zoophilic relationships were attraction to animals out of either a desire for affection, and a sexual attraction toward and/or a love for animals.
He repeatedly informs us — and the women, too — that he is motivated by his growing, budding, blooming love, but his truest feeling can only be his desire for affection and approval.
Would it not be more straightforward simply to admit that both men and women have bodies that age – and that most humans share basic desires for affection, intimacy, and respect?
