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Self-Respect: Why People Who Don’t Respect Themselves Use This Trap To Control Women
According to our society which aims to control women who are genuinely happy, self-respect is achieved when you display all signs that do not point to you respecting yourself at all!
One of the best things I have done for my sanity was to quit caring about what people thought of me. Relinquishing this heavy burden has allowed my authentic femininity to flourish. Even though the way I live my life isn’t pleasing to those who would rather see me pandering to men and their false standards of what constitutes a graceful, moral woman who has earned their respect, I am proud of myself for going against the grain and walking, dancing, dressing, and living in my truth.
For me, this is what self-respect looks like: respecting myself enough to do what feels good for my soul. Based on my definition, many people who dare to judge me and other free women on having no self-respect also lack self-respect, because they do not even know what it means to respect themselves. Their only basis of self-respect is based on relentlessly seeking approval from others through adapting everyone else’s version of what self-respect looks like.
Apparently a woman has self-respect when she neglects herself and succumbs to the standards and opinions of people who don’t respect…
