5 Signs You Need To Love Yourself More (2 of 3)

2. You Make Excuses For Bad Habits

The key to living a happy life is to be good to yourself and make decisions that help foster a healthy lifestyle both physically and psychologically. But when you have a negative relationship with yourself, you find ways to develop terrible habits that lead you to sabotage your life. Instead of recognizing your self-worth, you go down a path of self-hatred in which you convince yourself that there are no good resolutions. As a result, you might choose alcohol or drugs to cope with the pain. Or you develop an eating disorder as a means of punishing yourself for not meeting your unrealistic expectations of how society should view you. Of course, in many cases, people who have a toxic relationship with themselves get into relationships with others who are abusive. In the end, such people believe they deserve their fate rather than surround themselves with positive people.

3. You Neglect Your Mental and Physical Health

People who live healthy, well-balanced lives understand the importance of self-care. This could mean going out for a jog a few times a week, making sure your home is clean, or rewarding yourself with an afternoon at the day spa. But people who have toxic relationships with themselves will often engage in the complete opposite. They’ll lay in bed all day; they allow their trash can to overflow; they never take any time to treat themselves to anything good. Those who neglect their own needs will feel exhausted and irritated and will resent others who do look out for themselves.