If you wish to retain your friendship and bolster your self-esteem, you need to talk to your friend.
If you need more self-esteem, you need more of God.
If you have bad self esteem, you might need to start your mission to care more by valuing yourself first.
Chances are, if you have a healthy amount of confidence and self esteem, you won't feel like you need to lie to impress someone.
Once you say you're not worthwhile just the way you are, no amount of accomplishment or praise will provide the unconditional sense of self-esteem you want and need.
This is a sure-fire way to knock holes in your self-esteem, and as a stay-at-home parent, you need all the self-esteem you can muster.
I cherish face time with my true friends, but some that find themselves out of work during these horrible, depressionary days which have destroyed everyone's bank accounts and self esteem need to understand that it can't be a condition of our friendship that we chew the cyber fat daily and create virtual bonds that tie up my time.
The person with low self esteem needs to know that they care about them because they probably feel like no one does.
At that time in my life I was lacking the tools needed to deal with low self esteem, young relationships, a need to fit in and an overwhelming feeling of uncertainty about what my future held.
But if the bragging around you has made your Facebook page feel like a festival of "Shiny Happy People" like that of Babble's Erin Loechner, who wrote "How Quitting Facebook Has Radically Altered My Self-Esteem," then maybe you need to play with your feed until you are seeing the posts of some different friends.
Good people with high self esteem that don't need to yell and bully and be crazy or manipulative or berate anyone to get attention.
