Do you need affirmations for your achievements?

To me part of the fun and principle of Fluther is celebrating milestones whether small incremental ones or larger ones. It is the comraderie etc. that adds to your joy and sense of accomplishment and community.

Having said that, in your personal life, do your achievements and victories ring a little hollow if you don’t feel properly acknowledged by your special people? Acknowledgement to me means as little as “mention” – sometimes that is not forthcoming.

I know that healthy people do not “need” acknowledgement but is it not true that part of the richness of life is feeling celebrated over accomplishments by others?

Examples of what I am talking about are improvements in any area of self care or feeling great about a newly spiffed up decor or paying off a vehicle, a new certification ——whatever it may be.