I can confirm this for myself. I didn't know who I was until I loved myself. And as you stated, how can we expect others to love us if we can't love ourselves (not verbatim). Brilliant Natasha. I appreciate the love languages that Gary laid out, but perhaps we need a book on love languages for single people like us. After all we have them as well, right? Mine would be:

Time to myself

Playing in nature

Silence

Acts of kindness

Words of Affirmation