Ways to start loving yourself the way you deserve to be loved

How do you deserve to be loved? While we may have some lists with what we want another person to do or say or be we sometimes have no idea of what loving ourselves even mean. We may think it is a selfish act or a narcissistic personality trait. Well that is not true! Putting yourself first is not egoistical but very very healthy. It allows us to be assertive / to know and express what we want and like and what not without falling in the passive/aggressive way of handling people and situations. Being passive/aggressive means we accumulate frustrations from unexpressed wants and needs. While we may think this has to do with being polite, it has not! another side of this is we accumulate hopes and expectations without expressing them so no one knows what we expect because if they love us they have to know...Well, taht is also not true. Love has nothing to do with mind reading so we have to learn how to identify our needs and values and put them into words and actions.

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