One of the hardest things to accept in your life is yourself. You compare yourself to many different individuals, and you break down and analyze your every flaw. Sometimes you have so much past trauma that you often times find yourself hating your very existence. Yet when it comes to loving another person it can be so easy. You feel as though everything is good and you're finally happy, but are you really? Yes it may feel like bliss for awhile, but after some time of loving someone else and not loving yourself, your true colors can come out.

I have spoke with many friends, family, and I have even thought about it myself. If you don't fully love or appreciate yourself it will make it hard to last with the person you love. If you look in the mirror and can't point out any of your beauty then later in a relationship, you still won't see it even when your partner thinks otherwise. If you look at it this way, if your partner tells you that you are the most gorgeous person they have ever seen, and you respond with thank you, but on the inside you disagree you're insulting your partner. They chose you for a reason, they think that you're truly amazing, but you're disagree with their thought. If there is a constant battle of compliments and you not believing them then that can lead to a separation in the relationship. All of us want to be with someone for a potential future, and not to just waste our time. However how can you assure a working relationship if each positive is given a negative.

Before you can love someone else completely, you must love yourself and here is how. Try taking about 30 seconds out of your day to look in the mirror and pick out something small about yourself that you like. Once you have found that compliment that part each day until you truly love it, and then move onto another small feature. If you have a good mindset and work on trying not to compare yourself to other people, you can eventually learn to love yourself. Once you do, then it's safe to say you can fully love another person, and make sure that your relationship lasts. If you are currently in a relationship, and you don't love yourself don't fret! It is not too late at all. Find the time for those 30 seconds and learn to love yourself and watch your relationship improve.