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Old Feb 26, 2014, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by hannabee View Post
Thanks so much for this! It is so true and so sad that we are all so hard on ourselves.
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.