Allow myself to only be treated well by the people I choose to have friendships and relationships with. If they do not, I need to find the courage to move on without them.

I feel like I’ve completed this, and will keep with it! I’m happy where I am socially now, and even have a lovely respectful new boyfriend. What a huge change from where I was a year ago! I have only allowed respectful, fun people to be around me and I find it uplifting. There’s no need to waste any time being around jerks!

I feel like I’ve completed this, and will keep with it! I’m happy where I am socially now, and even have a lovely respectful new boyfriend. What a huge change from where I was a year ago! I have only allowed respectful, fun people to be around me and I find it uplifting. There’s no need to waste any time being around jerks!

Wow…becoming strong can be really painful! I’ve slowly been working on this goal, just by allowing myself to become more self-confident, as my low self-esteem was part of allowing people to do crappy things to me and walk all over me. This past month has been so soooo hard, I’ve had to end quite a few old friendships in realizing they weren’t good for me at all. A few new ones are starting, and they seem to be much healthier, and I’m glad for that. Change is just hard! It’s really not worth the waste of time and energy and the bad feelings to be around people who are so hurtful though.