When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.