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12 Ways to Improve Your Relationship With Yourself

The relationship you have with yourself impacts all other relationships in your life, so it’s important to make it a good one.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for all other relationships in your life. If you don’t like yourself and have a poor relationship with yourself, you’ll choose toxic or abusive romantic partners and have friends who take advantage of you. You’ll fail to set healthy boundaries, say no when you need to, and otherwise protect yourself.

When you love yourself and have a good relationship with yourself, you’ll make good, healthy choices because you value yourself. You won’t tolerate bad relationships, toxic people, missing or ignored boundaries, or do things you don’t want to do.

Sometimes it’s not obvious how to have a good relationship with yourself, though. Even if you’re not sure what to do, it doesn’t have to be that difficult to work on the most important relationship in your life.

Try these 12 ways to foster a better relationship with yourself.

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