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.