You hold yourself to a bar you’d never impose on anyone you love. You call it having standards. It’s closer to a punishment that never ends.
“What would you have me know about the impossible standard I hold only myself to?”
Some additional insights around this question:
- What do you demand of yourself that you’d forgive instantly in a friend?
- Where did that bar come from?
- What would ‘good enough’ actually free you to do?
