How Do You Wish You Had Been Loved as a Kid?

Here’s a good question for you on Valentine’s Day, from Brittany Long Olsen for the Washington Post: “How do you wish you had been loved as a kid?” As a way of healing childhood wounds, Olsen suggests having this conversation with a partner so that each may help the other heal.

I would go a step beyond and suggest that, once the question has been answered, you make a commitment to give that love to yourself and others—not depend on someone else to do it for you.

My answer is that I wish my accomplishments had been acknowledged rather than diminished.

You write it: What is your answer to the question?