Your standards aren’t about being “high maintenance” — they’re about self-respect. Every time you lower your standards to make someone else comfortable, you quietly teach yourself that your needs are optional. And they’re not. Your standards determine the quality of your relationships, your peace, your habits, and your entire life. When you raise them, you don’t lose people — you lose the people who were benefitting from the lower version of you. And that’s protection, not loss. Stop shrinking y

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