What did you mean by “Are you confusing love with attachment and need.”?

It was scary for me to read that because I immediately thought you wrote this because it sounded to you from what I wrote that I don’t really love my partner, I only need him. It is one of my biggest fears and maybe you didn’t mean it that way, but this is how I read it.

Which goes to show the way my mind reacts to this subject altogether which seems unhealthy to me. I seem to give more value to others’ opinions even when they don’t know me or my partner at all as I’m always scared of how I am perceived and how my partner is perceived in relation to me.