How many people love you?

[AmeliaHarbottle]

I was just pondering this today. I think only my children and OH. Which doesn’t seem a lot.

Well, I suppose the obvious ones would be my husband and two children, my mum and four siblings, plus one sister in law, my grandmother, my four nieces and nephews, one uncle, my mother and father in law and probably six or seven of my close friends. So around 23/24?

One. Just my husband. I have no children, my parents are dead and I’m an only child!

“The line of people in this world who really care about you ends here!”

For most people it’s usually a very short line of close family.

Parents, sister niece and nephew.

im not sure if any of my friends love me. Im not sure if i love them.

My DH, my DCs, my parents, my sister, I’m incredibly lucky to still have two grandparents still with us, and I have a few close friends who I definitely share a family-type love with. The type of friends who I’d go to the ends of the earth to for, same as any close family member.

I've never thought of this before but now that I do I think there is more people than I would have realised. My DH, my son, my foster daughter, my sister, my dad, my two nieces, my sister in law, three of my friends, my cousin. So that's 12, that's not too shabby.

I feel very grateful to be able to say that I have a DH who loves me and our 3 DCs.
My DPS are both dead but I grew up not feeling loved by my DM anyway and as an only child I can't say I grew up feeling that anyone loved me.
I have two very lovely and kind friends but I would not presume to say that they loved me...
I don't use the word love lightly, some people feel they are 'loved by everyone'!
But I feel love, true love, is deeper and more profound than that, and also far less common.

I'm assuming people I love love me back 😃

Mum, dad, son, sister, nieces x 2, aunt x 2, uncle x 2, cousins x 4, boyfriend in his own way, friends x 3.

None is the honest answer, given that my dog is not a person.

Enough do and that's all I can wish for. 😁

Same here. Except my cat only tolerates me

My mum, two siblings, an on-off partner, two friends. Only six people. It’s not much for a life, but I suppose it’s enough.

My husband, son, brother, nephews, auntie. I really hope my sister in law too as i love her and hope she feels the same and we get on very well.

I feel very lucky.

My husband and 3DC though they are young so it's a childlike love, as much about what I am to them as who I am.
Then my parents, 3 siblings and my two best friends.
Lots of other people I think feel very positively about me, might say they love me in a friendship sort of way. But my family and life long friends are the ones who know me and my faults but still love me entirely, they would back me in all situations, just as I would back them.

My husband and my two children love me, that’s for definite. I think my brother and my sister do too, but in a funny kind of way that doesn’t really look like love a lot of the time. My parents did love me, but they’re both dead, and I’ve sadly come to the conclusion that none of my friends love me. I guess the fact they like me will just have to be enough.

No body

One of my dearest friends died nine days ago from terminal cancer. I rang him the Sunday night before he died. The last thing I heard him say to me was "I Love You too!
I said my goodbyes on the Monday and he died on the Thursday morning... 💔 💔 💔 💔

Everyone that meets me obviously i`ll go with that and live in denial.

DH, DD, DS, my parents, my two brothers, I don’t think my BIL loves me, my brother’s ex wives x 3, current wives x 2 probably not. Half a dozen friends. That’s about it. I do feel very lucky and loved in my life.

This has reduced me to tears, I’m so sorry for your loss 💔

So sorry for your loss.

I’m so sorry for your loss too.

I think it’s really nice that people have friends who love them etc. While I’m sure my friends care about me, I don’t think any of them love me. Not in a significant way anyway. I think the way I kind of view “proper” love, is that if we all found out the world was ending, who would immediately think of you and want to be with you at the end. Now while I’m sure my friends would miss me for a while if I died, I don’t think I’d even cross their mind in a massive emergency etc.

Me and my son :-). My husband, parents and parents in law are all dead, they loved me. There are other folk who feel various shades of affection for me, I suppose it depends what you mean by 'love', but as time goes on they are fewer. That is life, doesn't bother me.

My mum and my children: think that’s it to be honest