I was having a discussion with some women in my writing group, and we had an exercise where we listed examples of good and bad characteristics of love. For the good, we listed words such as: caring, accepting, supportive, understanding and dependable. For the bad, we listed words such as: temporary, hateful, judgemental, conditional and hurting.
All of the women admitted that these characteristics used were descriptive of men in their lives. After reviewing our lists, I asked the women to internalize those characteristics. How often are we judgemental, conditional and hateful toward ourselves? Every time we make a mistake, we come down on ourselves harder than the world does.
It's important that we look inside to find love for ourselves above all. Regardless of who may hurt us, we should always be good to ourselves. We can never love others fully until we learn to love who we are.
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