The Load of Crock Behind Self-Love

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:24.7	There is no proof, no scientific support or evidence that you have to love yourself before you can love somebody else. That's just a
0:40.9	load of crock. I know a lot of you walk around saying stuff like that. Oh, and I went to a
0:48.1	therapist and I was told I have to love myself. Well, one of the first time somebody was told that was the ancient Greek myth of
1:00.2	narcissus vividly established the perils of excessive self-love. As he a hunter, fell in love with
1:10.3	his own reflection in a pool of water, refusing to consider a relationship with another human being.
1:20.1	This self-love is silly.
1:23.6	Silly, ridiculous psychobabble notion.
1:27.3	You know what is not silly?
1:32.0	Taking care of yourself.
1:34.7	We'll call it instead of self-love, self-care.
1:38.4	Flushing your teeth, taking showers, getting exercise, eating properly,
1:43.2	self-care.
1:46.3	You know what's another one?
1:49.9	Self-acceptance.
1:54.0	Which means, you know, body, mind, and soul.
1:58.3	You ain't perfect, and you have imperfections and things to work on. But basically,
2:04.0	you accept that you're a person with some good parts, some bad parts, some limitations,
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