You don’t have to love yourself perfectly to be loved by someone else. You can be a work in progress and still be worthy of a healthy, beautiful relationship. The goal isn’t to become so healed that you finally deserve love. It’s to recognize that you already do and stop settling for less than you deserve.
The speaker introduces how your sense of self-worth affects who you choose in romantic relationships, noting that low self-worth can lead you to tolerate poor behavior and make less healthy choices.
Concrete examples are given — tolerating a lot, having low standards, and seeking validation in unhealthy ways — to show how low self-worth shows up in relationships.
The speaker clarifies you don't need perfect self-love to find a partner, but working on loving yourself and holding yourself in higher regard will help you choose healthier people and experience healthier love.
A hopeful closing reassures viewers that healthy relationships are out there and encourages continued effort to love and value yourself more to attract and sustain better partnerships.
How you feel about yourself can impact who you choose with dating and in relationships. When you do not feel worthy of love, what can happen is you can tolerate a lot of bullshit. You can have really low standards. You might seek validation in unhealthy ways. And so it's not that you have to fully love yourself to find partnership. And the more you work on loving yourself, holding yourself in high regard, you're going to have healthier relationships. You're going to choose healthier people and have healthier love.
It is out there. It is possible. And you can work on loving yourself and holding yourself in higher regard.
