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Jen-Jen
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Well as I've found out. If your not comfortable with yourself. You cannot be happy with a relationship. Inner unrest leads to making your loved one unhappy. Making you more unhappy. A vicious cycle that without help or self closure is going to end up messy.
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Yes... Well, you have to at least like yourself. If you like/love yourself (without ego/conceit), then you know HOW to love in general. When you love yourself, you will NOT be missing that love, and can extend it to loving another. If you don't like yourself, you will not treat anyone you supposedly love the way you KNOW you should, because it's harder to push through that non-love of yourself to give it to someone else... you will feel you're missing something in your own life, when all it may be is your own feelings for yourself.
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You have to be able to accept yourself, without judgment, before you can understand how to accept another. If your relationship with yourself is flawed, so too will your relationship be flawed with others. Learning to accept yourself, and to love and honor yourself, without judgment, is essential to understanding others. then you will choose as partners only those who can truly accept themselves. To attempt a relationship with another who doesn't undersand him/herself is to court disaster (or at last unhappiness).
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You have to know how to love yourself before you can love another because otherwise you won't know how to truely love them properly and respectfully...not to say that you can't love them at all or that love isn't real...but to show them you need to know the ins and out of what it's like to truely love yourself...to be considerate and respectful and kind and compassionate towards they're feelings
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Yes, because if you don't love yourself, and someone else tries to love you, you can't ever really love them back. You just end up resenting them for loving you. Since you don't love yourself first. *ahh, coffee + AnswerBag = run on sentences.* +5
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I do. Having a healthy self-image is important. You don't have to love everything about yourself, but you need a sense of self-worth which in turn brings out a positive outlook on life and other people. Also, I believe one needs to be careful and has to go easy on the "self-love" thing and try to reach a balance. : )
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No. That is twisting the initial meaning of the words. You have to love yourself before you can love another. Not before someone can love you. The reasons are obvious.
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No plenty of people have self-asteem issues, but have friends
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Well, maybe the word "accept" would be better. How can someone else accept you if you don't accept yourself? Regardless, the first step is to "love/accept yourself in general. That's the first step to true fulfillment, happiness, whatever you want to label it....even if you're a loner and have no interest is connecting with a s/o - it's important.
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I definitely believe that to be true.
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I believe that in order to be able to LOVE anyone or anything else ; you FIRST must be able to LOVE yourself so that you truly know and are aware of what love is .. +5
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