Summary

Oprah believes that we all share a universal human desire to feel valued. After interviewing several men who have cheated on their wives, she recognized how much these men wanted to feel valued and special. In her own life, Oprah recognizes how she did not feel loved as a child and in her twenties based her worth on whether a man would love her. Now she knows for sure that lack of intimacy is really about "disregard for yourself" (52). If you do not know you have worth, there is nothing anyone else can do to convince you of that. She encourages readers to give themselves the love, affection, and intimacy they deserve. In improving relationships with others, the most important key is communication.

For most of her life, Oprah was not a social person. However, when she moved to a house in California...