Key points

Love's complexity prompts ongoing learning without a final exam or certificate.

Self-love readily lends itself to other-love and respect.

Need Management Therapy helps identify and manage personal needs for self-compassion.

I grew up in a very religious, Christian family where Sunday's activities were predetermined and strictly enforced. Like many of my generation, come Sunday, our parents faithfully saw that we were dressed in our best attire and dutifully marched to church like preprogrammed automatons. With unblinking obedience, we reenacted this liturgy—week after week, year after unrelenting year—seemingly ad infinitum.

Growing into adolescence , however, my mind began to fill with questions—many of them—but one upstaged the rest: "What was the purpose of our never e

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