When we treat ourselves without love and respect, we give others permission to do the same. We attract into our lives, people who treat us in the same horrible way that we treat ourselves.
On the other hand, when we begin lavishing ourselves with self-love, we begin attracting into our lives people who treat us with love and respect, people who see our worth.
Let us try to visualize filling ourselves up with love from the inside out. As opposed to the outside in, which would be relying on other people to make us feel loved. When we fill ourselves up with so much love, it eventually starts to spill out into our relationships with other people.
The more we love ourselves, the more we have the ability to give love to others, and the more love we will attract and receive from others.