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Needs of Love and Belongingness
When the needs for safety and for physiological well-being are satisfied, the next
class of needs for love, and belongingness can emerge. ... This involves both giving and receiving love,
affection and the sense of belonging. ... We need to feel loved by others, to be accepted by others. ... We need to be needed. ... Yes, obviously ,everyone feels
the need to be loved ,to be needed and to belong.
The emerge of the needs of love and belonging cause a person to feel keenly, the
absence of friends, or a sweetheart, or a wife, or children. ...
We have very little scientific information about the belongingness need, although this
is a common theme in novels, autobiographies, poems and plays and also in the newer
sociological literature. ...
I believe that the tremendous and rapid increase in personal growth groups and
intentional communities may in part be motivated by this unsatisfied hunger for
belongingness and by the need to overcome the widespread feelings of alienation and
loneliness, which have been worsened by the break-down of traditional groupings, the
scattering of families, the generation gap, the steady urbanization and disappearance of
village face-to-face practices and the resulting shallowness of American friendship!
Approximate Word count = 942
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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