Depressed patients often view themselves as deficient, helpless, and/or unlovable, and they tend to attribute their unpleasant experiences to their presumed physical, mental, and/or moral deficits.
She writes about growing up in a painfully difficult family, giving us lessons on how to love the unlovable in poem after poem that express the terrible complexity of love.
She needs to receive love from men to prove she is not unlovable.
However, we come to believe that there are things about us that are unacceptable or unlovable.
Underlying the behavior of openness is the feeling of being likable or unlikeable, lovable or unlovable.
That is unloved because it is unlovable.
Brilliant as this misguided and unlovable man was, he took a different and ultimately disastrous view about the functions of propaganda.
Students are not always lovable to-day, but we do not deny justice to people simply because they are unlovable.