Posted by Emily on October 08, 2001 at 23:43:58:
In Reply to: Re: You are Quite Right posted by Summer on October 08, 2001 at 17:03:05:
That's one of the unhealthiest things you could ever do...needing someone to validate your feelings. It suggests that you aren't worth having your own feelings unless someone else approves of them, and that's not true and it is VERY dangerous thinking. Sure, sometimes you are going to doubt your emotions and what-have-you and wonder why and if you should be having them, but that's something to work out on your own, not go to an outside source for. A person "giving your feelings legitimacy" shouldn't be someone to be thankful for, although I'm sure their intentions were for the best...it should be something you are working against.
-Emily
: thanks for giving my feelings legitimacy...:-))
: Summer