Someone who lacked love can learn to welcome
If you lacked affection at home, you may find it hard to give. But it can be learned.
If you grew up in a cold environment, you may find it hard to express affection, trust people or receive others' needs without feeling them as a demand. What comes naturally to others you may have to learn.
It doesn't help to deny the wound or make it your identity. You can pay attention to people who love well, ask for support and practice concrete gestures, even if at first they come out clumsy. Tenderness can also be learned.
Over time, what you lacked can make you more attentive to those who feel invisible. Not because that harm was good, but because your freedom and God's grace can keep it from having the last word. You don't have to give exactly what you received: you can begin something different, little by little and with support.
Key idea
What you lacked influences you, but it doesn't condemn you: loving can also be learned.
Your challenge for this idea
This week, practice a gesture of affection you didn't learn at home and ask for guidance if the wound makes it very hard to keep up.
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