You first gotta love yourself if you want to attract love. If you don't really believe you are lovable it's going to become quite difficult. So if you want to attract a partner who really respects you, loves you, treats you right and so on, you got to fall in love with yourself.

This woman helps with all such things with clips of some 15 min. It's Marisa Peer, she's absolutely great!

Here's one clip, from that you can find more on her channel and choose whatever subject you like. SHe's also got vids on how to become successful etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbAuIup_MFY

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Good to hear! I'm still busy with it myself, every day. And I got notes up everywhere saying "I am enough".

I am just after to accept myself, love is somewhere down the road. Every journey starts with a small step.

You may want to check out Marisa Peer :)
And if you don't feel like that, start saying positive things about yourself all day long, starting with I am...
I am enough
I am a great person
I am ...
I am ...

It works a treat. It might feel a bit strange at first, but it works great and fast too.
Best to watch Marisa Peer, you will feel the power of it.

Considering the fact I know me better than anyone else on this planet and the fact I've known me all my life, how could I NOT love me?
I find it weird when people don't love themselves.
Without me, I would not exist.

I wish men were more aware.
Here is something I used to run into all the time enough times to make me wonder.
I would start dating a feller who thought I was too good for him. Then somewhere
along the line he would become disenchanted because he thought there must be
something wrong with me, that I would like him..I learned to avoid these un-self-
loving individuals and spot them early on.

Sort of like Groucho Marx saying he would never join a Country Club
that would allow him as a member.

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I think the time is slowly coming that men become more aware and begin to grow. What I've seen a lot, on here too btw, is that men have more difficulty bouncing back from emotional hurt. Whether it's a childhood issue or a love relationship gone wrong.

None of those are reason to love yourself. It's a nice mental deduction, no heart in it. And if it were true you would've been happy and positive and cheerful before your GF came around... I do assume you can recall the general gist of your postings before then.
Very few people love themselves as we aren't taught to love ourselves, and usually we get taught without words at a very young age we are not lovable.