This can mean different things to different people, but to me, I feel like I needed to love and respect myself before I could love and respect others. I had a string of crappy relationships in my twenties with partners who didn’t respect me or treat me well. I was so desperate to find affection and affirmation that I put up with partners who took me for granted and didn’t hold up their end of the relationship. In my thirties, I have spent enough time in therapy and grown enough that I would never settle for relationships like that.
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This can mean different things to different people, but to me, I feel like I needed to love and respect myself before I could love and respect others. I had a string of crappy relationships in my twenties with partners who didn’t respect me or treat me well. I was so desperate to find affection and affirmation that I put up with partners who took me for granted and didn’t hold up their end of the relationship. In my thirties, I have spent enough time in therapy and grown enough that I would never settle for relationships like that.