I appreciate your candour about how you feel about yourself, because I am also someone who struggles with self hatred and craves affirmation, so seeing comments like yours gives me a nice sense of solidarity.
Compliments make me uncomfortable because I only really recieved them when I was quite young, so I have a habit of associating compliments with being a child. So compliments make me feel infantilized.
I also struggle with self-worth, so I also often times feel like I am undeserving of compliments. This causes me to not trust compliments as being genuine. I have a bad habit of assuming compliments are backhanded or are manipulative, or just overall just not genuine.
What the hell, this is exactly how I feel. I don’t have a partner though so I don’t know how I’d behave in this case. I hope that, if I ever find someone, I can at least trust them enough to not question the sincerity of their compliments.
I don’t get it, why wouldn’t they want their partner to say nice things to them?
self hatred does things to people
I hate myself so I’m well aware, that’s why I want someone to say nice things to me.
some people want it but also can’t handle it because they don’t believe it
I appreciate your candour about how you feel about yourself, because I am also someone who struggles with self hatred and craves affirmation, so seeing comments like yours gives me a nice sense of solidarity.
Compliments make me uncomfortable because I only really recieved them when I was quite young, so I have a habit of associating compliments with being a child. So compliments make me feel infantilized.
I also struggle with self-worth, so I also often times feel like I am undeserving of compliments. This causes me to not trust compliments as being genuine. I have a bad habit of assuming compliments are backhanded or are manipulative, or just overall just not genuine.
What the hell, this is exactly how I feel. I don’t have a partner though so I don’t know how I’d behave in this case. I hope that, if I ever find someone, I can at least trust them enough to not question the sincerity of their compliments.