When I read this the first thing that popped into my head was a quotation from the New Testament. The tail end of it is: Love thy neighbor as thyself for the love of God. It implicitly tells you that you have to love yourself. Personally, I've never been really good at that. I was finally able to make peace with myself. It was at that point that I met Kate and that was, at this point 27 years ago. it does work.
When I read this the first thing that popped into my head was a quotation from the New Testament. The tail end of it is: Love thy neighbor as thyself for the love of God. It implicitly tells you that you have to love yourself. Personally, I've never been really good at that. I was finally able to make peace with myself. It was at that point that I met Kate and that was, at this point 27 years ago. it does work.
Thank you for this comment, Jeff. This is exactly the truth I'm only belatedly learning. How much suffering there is when we can't love ourselves.