Anyone from Turkey or C.Republic ? will be going there for holidays

I guess if you don't love, you hate. No neutral position, i see no reason why anyone would hate himself or herself

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You don't have to love yourself to love someone else - people do it all the time. I think it's probably healthier and way more fun if you know who you are as an individual so you can know who you are in a relationship. Plus, if you know who you are you'll know what you want out of your relationship and be able to properly communicate your needs and vice versa. Being in a relationship where you're requiring people to love you more than you love yourself isn't fair to anyone involved - it breeds resentment and an unrealistic expectation of the people you're choosing to be with.

It depends on your understanding of what love is.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides, and when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to workout whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because that is what love is. Love is not breathelessness, it is not exictement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No..... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is leftover, when being in love has burned away........ (Igannis to Pelagia

I love this poem because I believe it explains to you the difference between what love is, what you think love is, being in love, and finally how you deal with love. We all love this person and that person without fully accepting ourselves. To answer your question yes one must love themselves before trying to love somebody else because if your understanding of love is different than what you feel about or think about that other person, how do you even know your in love in the first place. Love is more than just a powerful word because in order to fully understand it one must have had love and lost it to know what it is. It's a sad truth but nonetheless the truth.

Even if you love yourself, you won't never know how much....and it's not yourself that decides if there is any more room for another person in your heart...it happens to fall in love and you can't deny it or keep it away if your feelings are so strong. It's not necessary to love myself, but at least to accept how I am, in order to try to love any other human being.