This is not the first time I have heard this... it's a big part of why I stopped expressing myself... because I HATE it when people think I'm being unloving..
But now I realize that their perspective (although valid) is not MY truth and it's up to them to look at what I am saying and check their own hearts.
Nice realization here... we express our needs in the most loving way we can, it is up to them to let us know if they perceived it differently. Basically check their own hearts and have the nuts to loving express their needs.
Clapping my hands for ya, knock their socks off...
You can not change your past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.