Why You Feel Unloved (Even When People Care About You)

If you’ve ever wondered “what if I was never truly loved?”, this video explores why feeling unloved, unlovable, or emotionally distant can happen — and how emotional neglect or past experiences may shape the way you see love today. Sometimes it’s not that love was never there, but that it didn’t feel the way you needed it to.

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Further Reading (APA):
Spinazzola, J., Hodgdon, H., Liang, L. J., Ford, J. D., Layne, C. M., Pynoos, R., Lee, R., & Stolbach, B. (2014). Unseen wounds: The contribution of psychological maltreatment to child and adolescent mental health and risk outcomes. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6(S1), S18–S28. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037766

Kim, J., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Manly, J. T. (2009). Child maltreatment and trajectories of personality and behavioral functioning: Implications for the development of personality disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 21(3), 889–912. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579409000480

Crowell, S. E., Fraley, R. C., & Shaver, P. R. (2016). Measurement of individual differences in adolescent and adult attachment. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (3rd ed., pp. 598–635). Guilford Press.