Oh Fuzzybear, you ask some really great questions. Never stop, okay? Just the other day I was thinking about you and your questions, and wondering if you would post another one soon.

I think that the key word in this question is "expect." If you don't like yourself, you probably don't expect to be liked, deep down anyway. But that doesn't mean that people won't like you, or that you won't be hurt if they don't like you. Also, it probably isn't black and white - even if we generally dislike ourselves, chances are that there is still something about us that we do like, and if we do generally like ourselves, there can still be room to recognize the need for improvement. Feedback from other peolple regarding whether or not they like is affects our ability to like ourselves. Also, others may be able to sense whether or not we like ourselves and respond to us accordingly.

I'm not sure if that all came out as any more than a bunch of gibberish, but there it is.

<font color=green>"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible" Carl Jung</font color=green>