We can love ourselves even in the face of unloving interactions
WElove to give love and we love to feel loved. The feeling of love fills our soul, making us feel whole. It’s for this reason we pursue love in all of our relationships.
Love makes us feel whole because love itself is whole. Of course, there are different types of love, but each has some measure of the qualities of acceptance, acknowledgment, appreciation, and adoration.
However, when someone who criticizes us claims to love us, the sudden fragmentation of pure positive energy crudely breaks the spell. Now, instead of feeling accepted and adored, we feel rejected and disdained. The love is gone and we shiver and shrivel in its icy vacuum.
As important and central as it is, love is a poorly understood emotion. Some may be surprised to even hear it described as an emotion — a simple feeling. Isn’t love a commodity? Something you can earn, win, or otherwise be given?
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