Most people love others based on their own needs
When they say, “I love you” they don’t mean that
They mean, “I love me, and I’m using you to do it”
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That last line I was paraphrasing out of a love book (James Gills)
I’m trying to learn how to love better
Especially love God better
I need all the help I can get
How not? They say self love is the best love. Loving you because I love me seems fair! It’s hard to love externally when you can’t love internally.
Self-love is most definitely the best love. True love is loving someone out of the fullness within instead of looking outside of yourself to find someone else to fill the emptiness within. There are people who don’t love themselves that try to use others to do it, and that’s not self-love – Love yourself first, then you will have something to give AND receive.
Love should be about giving and receiving…
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Not only to be loved
– But to be love –
Being in Love
“Love your neighbor as yourself”
– That means there is a certain way you should love yourself and that step must be taken first
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Love yourself first – You shouldn’t try to get someone to love you because you can’t love yourself
If you can’t love yourself, how will you love someone else and be loveable
Love-able
Even if someone else loves you and you can’t love yourself, you still won’t feel loved because you still don’t love you
Even if everybody loves you, but the most important person to you (the one you’re closest to) doesn’t love you, you will be unsatisfied (at the very least)
You will resent the one you chose to love you; the one you expect to fill the hole that only you can fill because that person will never be able to do what you are supposed to do
First
Love yourself
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