Posted by pegasus on September 21, 2006, at 9:59:03
In reply to Defective..., posted by muffled on September 20, 2006, at 22:12:56
You are right. I can see it for other people, but not for myself. But then . . . people always say that to love others you have to love yourself first. And I think, uh oh. Cause I really don't love myself. I'm such a pain in my own *ss. But it sure seems like I love some others. So I don't get that.
For me, I think part of it is the ridiculing way my parents raised me, so that any time I started to think there was something good about me, they'd make fun of me, and put me in my place. I was taught that it's *not ok* to say (think?) anything good about myself. It was all about being super humble, which I think they thought meant always putting self down. It's screwed up and I'm teaching my daughter differently. She'll probably end up being really spoiled and arrogant. LOL.
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