10 Ways Low Self-Esteem Affects Women in Relationships
If you can’t see your own worth, how can you believe a partner will? Nothing interferes with the ability to have an authentic, reciprocal relationship like low self-esteem . If you can’t believe you’re good enough, how can you believe a loving partner could choose you? Low self-esteem can make you test or sabotage relationships that have potential, or settle for relationships in which you’re treated in a way that matches your beliefs about yourself. That said, low self-esteem doesn’t always look the same way in relationships. The following are 10 of the many ways that low self-esteem can manifest in your romantic relationship . (Note that adult manifestations of earlier emotional, physical or sexual abuse are way too complex to be characterized in this post. Trying to do so would not do service and so those pathways to low self-esteem will be omitted from this article.) 1. Bring the Bling You feel wretched and fantasize that a knight in shining armor will take you o