Self-Care as a Foundation for Love [psychcentral.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 2/21/2012:00 PM

By John Amodeo, PsychCentral, February 11, 2020

Many of us have been taught that loving another person means sacrificing ourselves to serve others. We suspend our own desires in a noble effort to love.

Indeed, love relationships are not just about meeting our own needs. They require an effort to listen deeply to what our loved one needs to be happy and feel connected with us. However, if we continually suspend our own needs in order to accommodate others, we may become resentful and unhappy. We fall into a pattern of codependence — neglecting our own needs in order to accommodate the other. Love requires reciprocity.

I’ll address two important ways that self-care is vital in our relationships.

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