<human>: I'll try not to make this long but I just want someone's 2 cents. My [27M] girlfriend [24F] grew up in a home where while her mother loved her she was never shown any affection. Her dad was an alcoholic and not really in the picture. She has this problem where she doesn't know what love and affection are, she'll say or show it but only in small doses. We've been together for 2 1/2 years and this is the longest she's ever been with someone. That alone frightens her, she says she doesn't know the next step or if she can even handle the next step. Things that come naturally to most people with love, she struggles with.

She doesn't know what to do and doesn't understand her own thoughts and feelings and she pushes them away. She can only show anger at her own insecurity because she knows somethings wrong with her. She plans on seeing a counselor soon and cant promise me if things will work out. I'm so lost and upset because I know she loves me  and tells me so but we might lose the best thing that ever happened to us because of her own inability and subconscious stubbornness to truly love and embrace it. Has anyone ever dealt with this?

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<bot>: my girlfriend has never experienced true love or affection and now our relationship is in jeopardy because it scares the living hell out of her to embrace the next step. Her whole life she's run from her own thoughts and feelings.