Like the old saying goes the demon you know is better than the one you don't. Sometimes I ran from authentic love because I felt like I was undeserving or at any moment they might go from loving me to turning their back on me.. Thankfully all of those people are still around and although it's taking me years to see it I now see that it was authentic Another reason is the concern that they were just faking it so they could get something out of me, whether that be praise, money, validation, or attention. That caused me to distance myself from people that really only meant good for me. Because so many times in my life I didn't see when I was being manipulated I just assumed that everyone was trying to manipulate. And that I wasn't smart enough to notice it, so maybe I was just better off isolating.
Like the old saying goes the demon you know is better than the one you don't. Sometimes I ran from authentic love because I felt like I was undeserving or at any moment they might go from loving me to turning their back on me.. Thankfully all of those people are still around and although it's taking me years to see it I now see that it was authentic
Another reason is the concern that they were just faking it so they could get something out of me, whether that be praise, money, validation, or attention. That caused me to distance myself from people that really only meant good for me. Because so many times in my life I didn't see when I was being manipulated I just assumed that everyone was trying to manipulate. And that I wasn't smart enough to notice it, so maybe I was just better off isolating.