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In order to love others I need to love myself, and if I respect myself I will respect others, because I like to treat others, the way I like to be treated. I was in a relationship for 20 years, and yes we had our ups and downs, but when my partner started calling me [names]I was confused, I just looked myself in the mirror and thought Im not this, and saddly after so many years we separated.I could not live in an abusive relationship I need to have respect to love someone.

I agree with you.one has to love oneself,only then he could love others better.Holy books like,BAGHAVATH GEETHA,BIBLE,QUR-ON,etc states the same thing.I love myself.I believe what I do is right.Loving yourself will boost up your self confidence and make you to take some extra care on yourself,It is always good to love ourself.

I do love myself. If one's ability to love another can be assured by checking if one love's oneself, then yes I do love myself. Otherwise I do not understand this expression. For I feel everyone by default loves himself/herself for otherwise there won't be love for life at all in the first place. It is different thing about loving one's body - its salient features etc., But if you ask if a person loves himself/herself without qualification - then I would say it is given. And how do you say one loves others? By one's actions? Or do you expect to say and believe the spoken word "I love you" that will be mouthed frequently in movies and TV serials and soaps(May be this is reflection of life!). This a given unqualified love everybody must be having for oneself. That is the source of one wanting to live on! What do you think is the measure of someone loving the other? Say, for instance I love my wife. How is it to be seen? Do you want to count it by the number of ILU's said explicitly in a unit time? Or the number of presents in kind that one makes to the wife/husband? If you ask me the best test of a person's love for another is how much of non-sense or irritations that the other causes to you that you can tolerate is the true measure of love.

Well, I definitelt love myself. And believe it or not we love another person because we expect to get love in return which nourishes our soul. So even on loving another person its on a selfish intrest subtly. But loving yourself is genuine, you belive in yourself and like yourself enough to be confident about your endeavours. many people who do not love themselves can never love another person, its abasic requisite when you enter a relation. If you are not happy and cannot love yourself it is not possible to love another person in life.