When you practise self-love, you treat yourself better with kindness and this extends to those around you Also, you model healthy behaviours. After understanding self-love, and how to practise, you want to understand how it affects your relationships with others. The influence of self-love on relationships includes;
Improved relationship dynamics with other people because you're content and not troubled by insecurities that could lead to jealousy. When you love yourself it extends to how you treat and receive other people.
Improved communication and self-love allow for healthy communication by helping you speak/express your needs assertively. It also helps you to handle conflicts better, rather than attacking a person’s character, you address the issue.
It also helps you to set boundaries, speak your truth, and feel less resentful towards yourself and others. It also helps you set the grounds for how you expect to be treated. There’s a saying by Rupi Kaur ‘How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you’. By prioritising yourself and your needs and treating yourself with kindness, you show others how to treat you.
Self-love also helps you to speak from a place of confidence instead of second-guessing yourself, you appreciate yourself and values and speak to others from a place of confidence. You don't need external validation or rely on others to be happy when you love yourself, it allows you to invest in yourself and allows you to learn to appreciate and value yourself, your choices, and your values.
Self-love allows you to have respect for differences. You can accept yourself including your flaws, this in turn extends in your relationship with people. It also allows you to spend time with those who appreciate and value your worth.
By understanding the importance of self-love, its influence on relationships, and practising it, you make way for fulfilling relationships and become more compassionate and understanding. Self-love ensures that your relationships with others are sturdy. So keep loving yourself and having more fulfilling relationships.
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