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Originally Posted by hannabee
Thanks so much for this! It is so true and so sad that we are all so hard on ourselves.
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See, this always blows my mind. Not you in particular Hannabee, but women in general. It seems like it's some kind of defense mechanism ingrained when women are young; it's easier to set up a self-defeating view so that if anyone contradicts your view, it won't hurt.
What gets me most is denying what everyone says. Just ignoring compliments and reinforcing a deluded view.
Heck, it's sooooo rare for me to get anything but negative compliments about my appearance that I sit around wishing someone would say something nice about how I look. It's almost frustrating when people brush compliments aside.