This lonely heart needs affection!

Having written about how a strong bond has developed with both my mother and my dog in a previous post on My Autistic Life, love is an emotion that is luckily felt in what can often be an extremely unsympathetic disability such as Asperger’s Syndrome but there are sadly more than one type of relationship and set of feelings.

Loving a family member or two is fine and with reciprocated thoughts, a sense of trust and happiness comes freely but while this brings a content feeling, other forms of affection and closeness are being missed out on.

Is it as apparent to yourselves as it is to me about what is being described here?