Many of us have never been really important enough to
anybody. Nobody took us seriously enough
as children and we learned from that that we didn’t deserve attention, or love
and respect. We believed our needs weren’t
important so we didn’t pay attention to them any more than anyone else
did. So we ended up in relationships
with partners who treated us the way we treated ourselves.
We thought the answer was to understand our partners better,
even though it never brought results. We’ve
all at some point tried the same things over and over again, believing that
avoiding ourselves but understanding our partners should be enough for us to
change. Who said stupidity is doing the
same thing and hoping for a different outcome?
It’s true, although I hate that word stupidity.
We’re not stupid, we’re brave and heroic for never giving
up and always looking for answers. But how
long can that cry of "what about me?" reverberate through our whole
being day after day before we really decide we've had enough? The answers to our problems in relationships don’t lie in understanding our
partners. Let them understand
themselves! We need to know more about
us.
We have the right to answer our own cry, so we can be real
in our relationship with us first. So we
can get that love and respect we deserve – from us! It’s all about facing our own vulnerability
and letting ourselves acknowledge that we’re just as important as anybody else
on the planet. And it’s about taking
responsibility for what we need instead of dismissing ourselves.
“Be who you want to meet” doesn’t mean “be as nice to everybody
else as you want them to be to you”.
It means "be as nice nice to yourself as you want them to be
to you."
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