In my life, I felt like I couldn’t get enough love and attention from a woman when I wasn’t ‘loving’ myself.
In other words, I wasn’t giving myself the benefit of the doubt with mistakes, talking only good about myself, whether in self-dialogue or to others, or treating myself like a special and unique person in a myriad of other normal ways.
I was never happy and the anger I felt was at myself though at times in manifested at other people or inanimate objects. I hope this helps.