Love Riddle

[jaggers]

Do you think it is possible to love someone when you don't love yourself?

[Drusilla]

I think so. I believe loving yourself can often be the most difficult form of emotional love, though I accept it's probably the easiest, physically.
Some psychologists may argue the last person you ever really get to know is yourself and few people fulfill Maslow's heirarchy of needs, but are able to successfully love other people without a complete and satisfying understanding and appreciation of themself.

[jjaammeess]

Hello it depends what you mean by loving yourself ---does that mean that look at yourself in the mirror and admire yourself.I think that a better word than loving yourself is accepting yourself as you are.you know in certain situations you feel angry and because you have been taught not to express your anger you repress it.In this case you have not accepted your emotional anger and it builds up inside you until someday you explode so in this case you have 'loved' yourself you have denied yourself the anger that you genuinely felt in the first place.so loving yourself is not an easy thing to do and requires weeks months years of self examination so that at the end of the day you become neither aggressive are submissive but assertive ------that is your god given right to express yourself spontaneously. marriage guidance counselors will tell you that you cannot love anybody else in a mature way unless you love and accept yourself as you are and it is not an easy thing to achieve.

[Sweet cheeks]

What is it 'to love yourself '? I agree with jjaammeess, it could take up an awful lot of energy to decide whether you love yourself or not, and by the time that you come up with the answer, the person that was waiting to be loved by you could have buggared off!!! I am sorry if this sounds flipant, but I do think that some times we spend so much time trying to analise our felings that we miss out on some of the spontanety of life. Is this a hyperthetical question, or do you feel that you don't love yourself?

[vicalncraig]

I think that if you can,t love yourself it is very difficult to recognise love as a complete concept. Work at it we all have a positive side, hey I don't even know you and I think you are lovely already!

[WaldoMcFroog]

Yes, but it's impossible to receive love if you don't believe you are worthy of it.

[chrono]

If you spend to long asking yourself this question you will find you miss what is really important in loving this other person. eventually you will start to believe that you dont deserve to love this other person because you think so little about yourself. STOP think about what it is you want. decide and act on it. free yourself of they worries of what if's and cease the moment. if you are true to yourself and act on what you want you will begin to love yourself for it before you even realise its happening.

[schmokinweed]

yes i think you can

but if you don't love yourself, you don't get the full package, so to speak. it's like eating cake without cream and icing. good, but could be so much better!

try to learn to love yourself a bit more, that way you can love and be loved. (easier said than done, but i'm trying it out too!)