Do you love yourself? Why? No, seriously answer the question for yourself. If you have no idea why you love yourself, you will flounder with understanding why someone else would love you as well.
Do you know who you are? If you do not know who you are you may find yourself thinking and doing what someone else wants you to be. A people pleaser….you might even doubt another person’s love for you because you never really gave them the real you.
Do you accept that you make mistakes? If you cannot accept yourself as flawed, you may never believe someone can love you unless you are perfect.
The constant desire and quest for perfection may lead to you loving yourself less, and when we love ourselves less we subconsciously desire others to love us less. Then we believe if we were only better or more we might be loved more. But the inability to achieve perfection leads us to loving ourselves less… and so on and so on.
The quest for perfection is the ego’s deception. The fool’s game of an unending cycle which leads no one into more love of themselves and more love from others.