Love help: come awake? - Help.com

You must fill the emptiness with something other then love because love will always make you feel empty at one point in time.

We all do. Every last one of us. Maybe to different degrees, but we all feel that emptiness.

I believe that true love is sacrificing yourself for another. And it can be extreme and painful, and essentially involves dying to yourself. But it brings more joy than anything else.

But then again relationships have happiness in them too they’re not all about sacrifice =].

I would suggest keeping in mind that life can change any second and whatever’s coming up next, you never would have expected. Not knowing your situation I can’t really say anything less general. Good luck, friend.

i have felt that way . and mental illness has ran in the family so when my temper started to ruin my life .and the emtyness got to much thy put my on some antidepressants and with the help of a good dr. i feel better and can deal with little problems of life with out going over board

I used to feel empty. alone. neglected. but then, i lived through some of life’s experiences and realized it was beyond that. No matter how i tried, each attempt to reach out to another ended in nothing but scorn, hate, or mockery. So i grew to know those around me as detestable. I grew to become a person who showed the same hate and scorn to the world that turned its back on me early in life.

I came from a childhood filled with alcohol induced violence, secrecy, and unfulfilled promises. A counselor helped me to outgrow my childhood and become an effective adult. One thing that helps me is to stay in the present. Spending time thinking about the past takes energy I need for today. Another rule that helped me is this: While I cannot control what is happening around me, I can control my attitude and responses. Attitude is everything to me, now.

I have had lots of love in my adult life, but nothing filled the emptiness for very long until I took charge of my attitude and made myself happy, moment by moment.
Do you think what worked for me might work for you, too?

i found out that i was more mad at myself

……emptiness for me comes from an inability to express myself, usually bringing on frustration with language itself for not creating such a catastrophic word that might actually describe my feelings I wrote an ode about it…. But then drawing, music, art… fills the void for a while