Whatever that they’re criticizing about you, especially when the criticism gets intense, is an accurate description of what they are. They’re talking about themselves.

All who want to convince you that you need to hate yourself have more and bigger reasons to hate themselves than you could ever have, that’s why they’re jealous and think it’s unfair.

If they had anything to lose if such attacks were done to them, they wouldn’t even think of doing this to you.

I want you to imagine that for a moment.

They don’t have to be good people to stop themselves from trying to deliberately hurt you, they just have to be afraid that it could be done to them one day. Since they have nothing to lose in case that happened to them, they don’t care. They are not afraid, because you can’t hurt them.

And you still want your self-esteem to be predicated upon what they think of you.