But just because I feel a "need" to be loved doesn't mean that this desire is really a "God-given need," a "legitimate need," or a "primal need." Perhaps what I am calling "need" is really disappointment or grief, or perhaps it is my demandingness and lust.
--Edward T. Welch, When People are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1997), 88-89.
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