QUOTE : I was raised by good and decent parents. It’s only in recent years that I’ve begun to understand that I was a highly sensitive and insecure person who had been emotionally neglected as a child. Endlessly searching for a sign that I was appreciated, valued, and loved, I came up empty. When I was five, I unknowingly created a fantasy life of being rescued by the classic fairy-tale knight in shining armor. That fantasy remained imbedded and played out in episode after episode in my twenties, thirties, forties, and even fifties.