One day I’ll be good enough for him. One day he’ll approve of me.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    There is someone you’re already good enough for today that accepts you as you are. You’ll want to make incremental improvements in yourself not to gain his base approval, but because you know you are capable and worthy of it for yourself and partially because you love him and want to be an even better version of yourself for him. It will be mutual too. He will want to be better for you.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      This is all true. I will add a personal insight.

      I wasn’t able to have a really good deep and healthy relationship until I was willing to accept myself and let go of perfection.

      To be clear, I hadn’t fully accepted myself when the good started, I just began accepting myself.

      Friend, you are enough as you are.