Look at what you do have. I was letting everything I did have go out with the tide, and I was sitting on the beach all alone, searching for what I felt I lacked, and what kept coming back to me was everything I took for granted. I gave myself emotional whiplash, placing romantic love on a shiny pedestal and kicking everything else—familial love, friendship, love for myself, my career—to the curb. I reminded myself that once I found that devoted, everlasting romantic love, I would no longer feel so much discomfort. But trust me, you must heal the parts of yourself you see as unlovable or
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