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Needy love: It’s 2016. I’m on vacation in Hawaii with my boyfriend. It’s 5pm and I’m waiting him to come back from his walk. I want to focus on the writing I wanted to get done today, but I’m distracted by how long he’s been gone. He left at around… 3:30? He said he was walking to the beach. Why is he taking so long? What could he be doing? He probably met some cute girl and is walking on the beach, talking to her, wishing he didn’t have me — his boring girlfriend — waiting b

You may think that self-love doesn't matter in your relationship, but the truth is that how you secretly feel inside greatly affects the quality of love and connection you're able to have with others.

Basically my self-relationship was like being with a hyper-critical, nagging, bullying, tiger-mom of sorts… which makes complete sense why I couldn’t feel self-love. So each time I noticed myself being this way, I told myself: “Hey, that’s the last thing I need right now. That makes me feel worse and doesn’t improve anything. I need a seriously supportive friend right now who actually cares.” And then, begrudgingly, I’d make an effort to change what I was saying to myse