I don’t know who needs to hear this but the baseline for how a romantic partner should treat you is ‘at least as well as my friends treat me.’
@girlonthenet you're not wrong there. It's better to be treated with baseline respect of course.
@girlonthenet controversial opinion: also the baseline for how family should treat you.

@girlonthenet YES!

And… hear me out… you should be at least as kind to yourself at you would to a friend too.

Mind-blowing, that one.

@melofthevalley that is SUCH a hard one to do but you're absolutely right
@girlonthenet the lesser known version of that line from Wannabe