Love, Love, Love — 1 year ago
We can’t love other people unconditionally until we’ve felt unconditionally loved ourselves. We cant’t give what we don’t have.
You can’t build a solid house on a rotten, shifting foundation. But if you were not unconditionally loved as a child, that’s the kind of foundation you have, and no effort you put into the walls, windows, and doors will ever be fulfilling. You have to fix the foundation. Fortunately, as you find Real Love now, you can heal all the wounds of the past, repair the foundation, and build the kind of life you’ve always wanted.
Without Real Love we are desperate and will do almost anything to eliminate the pain of our emptiness. We try to get temporary relief thru….approval, money, sex, and power.
Without Real Love, we feel like we’re drowning all the time. When people get angry and criticize us, we don’t see them as drwning and protecting themselves. We become afraid, defensive, and angry, and we respond by using behaviors that may hurt them. Naturally, they react by protecting themselves and hurting us with even greater intensity, and until we understand that REAL LOVE IS THE SOLUTION, we can only perpetuate this cycle of self-protection an injury.
Most relationships fail because we become angry and blame our anger on something our parnter did or did not do. We need to remember that our anger is actualy a reaction to the feelings of helplessness and fear that result from a lifetime of struggling to survive without unconditional love.
