
Originally Posted by
Bojangles69
I knew this sounded familiar.
Its the melting pot of self esteem in relationships, in psychology when 2 people pair bond or date, their self esteem levels actually pool together, its been studied for quite some time now.
So if you are an insecure girl, and you pair bond (date) a secure confident man, the woman actually gets to enjoy the benefits of having high self esteem just by BEING WITH a confident man. So naturally a lot of her past insecurites wind up getting quelled in the process, the man in effect becomes a drug masking all her insecurities. Works the same for men too.
The end of a relationship is the BEST way of calibrating your true self esteem levels. (unless you're on drugs) And is also the best time to work on self esteem so in the future you have less insecurites that your partner can mask, and less overall pain when your break up. Which is another reason you see people quit functional behavoirs when they find a new partner. Like stopping going to the gym, stopping going out, stopping all sorts of activities that kept your self esteem high. When you have a partner, they can easily replace all that.
Its bad, because if you're the type of person who quits working out when you find a girl, that just means you lift purely out of insecurity, and when the girl is gone, you're fvcked.
Theres so much interesting shit about this topic alone but it would take forever to write.