Our personal relationships are often influenced by the feedbacks others give of us. However, it must be taken into consideration that in choosing our personal relationships, we often base our choices on the kind of personal feedback we want to receive from others – that is, a person with low self-esteem would more likely interact with another individual who view him less positively. On the other hand, an individual with a high self-esteem would want to establish relationships with people who give him a high regard.

People with low self-esteem would often view a failing relationship as a direct cause of their own weaknesses. However, in order to protect themselves from this sudden strike to their personality, they will try to find faults in others to hide their own failures. However, the only positive way of dealing with these failures is by effectively handling the issues at hand. Having a positive self-esteem helps protect an individual from the negativity of failures; that is because one is able to see one’s strengths despite the failures that have happened to him.

People with a high self-esteem are able to take on a positive look at every failure he has experienced. Moreover, he is able to analyze his own set of strengths and weakness that led to the eventual failure of a relationship. However, this failure does not hinder him from establishing other relationships. A high self-esteem helps an individual cope with the stresses of life and the anxieties brought about by problematic relationships.