Why You Can’t Have (Healthy) Love Without Self-Love
You can extend a bit more grace
“When you finally learn to love yourself, then that enables you to come to your relationships from a place of ‘Now I’m not looking to you to make me happy. I’m looking to you to enhance my existing happiness,” says Hogi. She adds that, once you love yourself, you’re able to be more empathetic and compassionate towards a partner because you’ve learned to be more empathetic and compassionate towards yourself.