Posted by raisinb on May 1, 2008, at 10:31:38
In reply to Re: living for yourself » raisinb, posted by Dinah on May 1, 2008, at 9:11:55
Me too--the "loving" part. Part of my problem right now is that I can't locate love for a lot of the people in my life (except my therapist). And that there aren't a lot of people to love.
I think my therapist's point (maybe) was that most of my relationships don't offer me much "true" support (another thing she said.) Instead they are based on me deriving my self-esteem from meeting others' needs. Not that this is always a bad thing.
But...
I really feel lately like I am reaching a stage in therapy where I will have to restructure my entire life. This is scary and I don't like it .
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