Why “You Have to Love Yourself First” is True
Four critical relationship issues that stem from not loving yourself
All throughout high school, my mom repeatedly told me “no guy would love me until I learned to love myself.” Everyone has heard this before. I honestly believe my mom was only saying this to make her daughter-who-hadn’t-hit-puberty-yet feel better and be more confident, but she said it nonetheless.
Then I forgot about it.
Going into college was like a dream. Guys thought I was attractive. I was getting 100, 200, 300, 400, or more matches on Tinder. Every party I went to a guy would hit on me, and some night while hopping from party to party I would meet more than one guy who was interested in me. This had never happened to me before. However, we would go on a date or two, and then it would fizzle out.
Except this one guy.
He was an international student, and holy shit he was by far the most attractive guy I had ever seen in my entire life. I grew up crushing on Sky from Mamma Mia, and this guy looked exactly like him. I was immediately smitten and was expecting us to sing “lay all your love on me” while rolling around on a beach and then live happily ever after.
