Casually Late to the Party

My love language is words of affirmation, something that I ironically have not always loved about myself. I have viewed this as weakness: why do I always need to be told how sexy, kind, witty, intelligent, sexy, loyal, compassionate, sexy, courageousness, sexy, funny & sexy I am? Isn't it already obvious?? That was too easy, sorry. Anywho, me not accepting who I am led to utter chaos in how I valued myself. Subconsciously, I was in dire need of words of affirmation and without acceptance, this put all my self-worth in the hands of others. This insecurity manifested it's ugly head through gift-giving and encouragement (Because gift-giving and encouragement are succubus' that bleed the world dry of joy, I know, I know). Yes, you can make the argument that I was still bringing joy to others, but in reality I was just doing it to hear those delicious words of affirmation. The longer I went without my fix, my mind would start fidgeting; The high was getting weaker and we...