For all of us when we start out in recovery we're all told that we will be loved until we learn how to love ourselves. Even though none us knew at time when we first heard this, that is the problem for all of us and our solution as well. The whole thing that recovery is about for all of us is being able to give and receive love, and none of us are very good at this or none of us would even be in recovery if we were. It doesn't really matter how we all ended up being like this. What really matters the most to all of us now is that by us being in recovery we'll all be able to learn how to do this and we'll all get real good at doing it. Then all of us end up getting what none of us had before, and for all of us to have this, it is truly a gift to have, because none of us were able to give this to ourselves. We all know this now, and all of us will be forever grateful for recovery teaching us how to this, so that all of us can now get along in this world that all of us hated by part of before any of us knew how to love.