Comments on: The Cause & The Symptom: Retaining Interest http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/the-cause-the-symptom-retaining-interest The Birds Sat, 19 May 2012 16:25:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kelly http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/the-cause-the-symptom-retaining-interest/comment-page-1#comment-18703 Kelly Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:36:40 +0000 http://thedemoiselles.com/?p=3196#comment-18703 Amazing article. I'm still working out exactly where and how I react with old habits, but I will think about them more after reading this. Thank you! Amazing article. I’m still working out exactly where and how I react with old habits, but I will think about them more after reading this. Thank you!

]]> By: annie http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/the-cause-the-symptom-retaining-interest/comment-page-1#comment-14537 annie Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:52:04 +0000 http://thedemoiselles.com/?p=3196#comment-14537 Good for you, figuring it out at 25! I'm 36 and I think its just this year that I'm really feeling body confidence. I'm not sure what did it, a dose of maturity, perhaps, a long-term relationship with a good man, or maybe its that my happy hour partner is a 6-foot, model-thin blonde with a British accent -so 10 years of watching her get hit on wore me out :) All kidding aside, you hit the nail on the head "if men appreciate me, I don't have to." It may actually be easier to get men to appreciate us than it is to have women do the same, non-judgementally, and hardest to do it ourselves. We may have been taking the easy way out till now. Great article. Keep on keepin' on, we appreciate you! Good for you, figuring it out at 25! I’m 36 and I think its just this year that I’m really feeling body confidence. I’m not sure what did it, a dose of maturity, perhaps, a long-term relationship with a good man, or maybe its that my happy hour partner is a 6-foot, model-thin blonde with a British accent -so 10 years of watching her get hit on wore me out :)

All kidding aside, you hit the nail on the head “if men appreciate me, I don’t have to.”

It may actually be easier to get men to appreciate us than it is to have women do the same, non-judgementally, and hardest to do it ourselves. We may have been taking the easy way out till now.

Great article. Keep on keepin’ on, we appreciate you!

]]> By: Jennifer Nicole http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/the-cause-the-symptom-retaining-interest/comment-page-1#comment-16310 Jennifer Nicole Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:52:19 +0000 http://thedemoiselles.com/?p=3196#comment-16310 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @TheDemoiselles: The Cause & The Symptom: Retaining Interest http://bit.ly/9p0Vu1</span></span>

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]]> By: shell http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/the-cause-the-symptom-retaining-interest/comment-page-1#comment-14470 shell Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:49:46 +0000 http://thedemoiselles.com/?p=3196#comment-14470 This is an amazingly articulate - and astute - interpretation of what SO many women experience and even nurture. Congratulations on finding these demons at such a young age(!) and I know you will be successful at casting them out one by one. You are a beautiful and talented woman, who is limitless in your generosity with positive information. It's so obvious each time I read one of your articles. Thanks! This is an amazingly articulate – and astute – interpretation of what SO many women experience and even nurture. Congratulations on finding these demons at such a young age(!) and I know you will be successful at casting them out one by one. You are a beautiful and talented woman, who is limitless in your generosity with positive information. It’s so obvious each time I read one of your articles. Thanks!

]]> By: Sally http://thedemoiselles.com/archives/the-cause-the-symptom-retaining-interest/comment-page-1#comment-14465 Sally Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:33 +0000 http://thedemoiselles.com/?p=3196#comment-14465 Although I haven't engaged this particular behavior in years, I can remember very clearly validating myself through male affection. It felt like such an easy out to put the validation on someone else's head. Now, I think it's more compliments. I crave them. I am more confident and body-positive than ever, but a deficit of compliments brings me down. And I should work on that. Although I haven’t engaged this particular behavior in years, I can remember very clearly validating myself through male affection. It felt like such an easy out to put the validation on someone else’s head.

Now, I think it’s more compliments. I crave them. I am more confident and body-positive than ever, but a deficit of compliments brings me down. And I should work on that.

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