"Love is like riding or speaking French; if you don't learn it young it's hard to get the trick of it later."
David Marlin Rains
I disagree. The older you get the easier it gets to learn love.
Alice Jeffries Keel
Well now I am divided
Terrell Shaw
David, the quote I heard on Downton Abbey tonight made me think of a few children I taught who came from unloving homes. Love requires trust. If one has never experienced a trustworthy relationship in childhood, it's a hard row to hoe later on to establish loving relationships. Not impossible, but hard.
Claudia Kennedy
Years ago, I read about a study done on infants raised in orphanages in Romania who were only fed, not loved or touched, only diapered, and fed and left alone, They did not develop the nerve endings which gave the pleasure signal to the brain, so they shunned touch, especially on their torsos. So, I do think it's hard to learn to love later, after having experienced neglect. Does anyone know more about this interesting subject of Terrell’s?
John Paul Schulz I like that one
Claudia Kennedy A follow up on our conversation from a report on Romanian Orphans twenty years after their experience. “The brain is dependent on experience to develop normally,” he said. “What happens in situations of neglect, such as kids raised in institutions, is that the experiences are lacking. So the brain is sort of in a holding pattern saying, ‘Okay, so where’s the experience? Where’s the experience? Where’s the experience?’ And when the experience fails to occur, those circuits either fail to develop or they develop in an atypical fashion — and the result is, in a sense, the mis-wiring of circuits.”
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