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Old 10-30-2012, 09:21 AM
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SparkleKitty
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I understand that feeling of perceiving yourself as too damaged for anyone else to love, and I encourage you to fight that feeling, not to give in to it and settle for less than you really want out of a relationship. I hope you find a way to trust that those feelings are just the results of a long losing battle against someone else's addiction. Only in finding freedom from that damaging cycle can you begin to build a new perception of yourself as someone any good person would be extraordinarily lucky to be with.

That's what happened to me. I believed I wasn't good enough for good people. Growing up in an alcoholic home taught me that. It was only after spending a great deal of time with myself, and eliminating all the negative influences from my life that I could accept myself, love myself, and understand that I was as worthy of respect, decency, and love as I believed literally everyone on the planet was except me.

Don't give up. I think you're swell.
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