Why are people told they need to learn to “love myself” before they can love someone else?
Love is such a mystery — sometimes painful, other times glorious, always challenging. This book will guide you to understand and sort out your myriad feelings and experiences. However you feel about love — love it, hate it, wish you knew, wish you didn’t, or feel too scared and confused to even try to find out — this book will show you that your feelings are okay, and most important, that you are not alone. In it you’ll find letters from other teens and Kimberly’s responses to their questions, concerns and confusion and you’ll get a wide-ranging perspective on love and relationships. Kimberly receives hundreds of letters a week from teens addressing every possible concern – love, sex, drugs, parental problems, cliques, fitting in – and through this communication, Kimberly has developed an empathy that teens throughout the world sense from her work on Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Chapter One First and Foremost: You Gotta Love Yourself! Each relationship you have with another perso