Oh yes, everyone, all your comments and insights are very helpful!
Thank you.
In some ways, I think we are like babies; social creatures and in need of affection from each other, to feel that we belong and are accepted within a wider social network.
Maybe it's a seperate issue, to the thing of generating love that Angela refers to, and yes, I agree love does come from within us, is who we are; but to feel loved by others and accepted, I think is a seperate issue, a creature need that we have.
It's like if you take a baby at birth, put it on a desert island, with everything it needs to survive, except the love and affection of other human beings, it will grow in to a very emotionally disrurbed human being.
As for myself, I feel as if I have a distinct lack of acceptance and affection in my own life; and little sense of connection with other people. I accept a lot of this is down to me, it's of my own making; by not accepting others just as I find them ... I am perhaps not accepting myself. It manifests for me, as a hole (deficiency), in my solar plexus region. Which I think is an energy centre assosiated with love?