Roots of a great self-relationship My relationship with myself, in a healthy sense, is arguably the most important relationship in life. Self-relationship is the foundation of everything else—even altruism. It’s easy to identify pathological aspects of self-relatedness—negative narcissism, overly solipsistic perspectives, inability to relate to and empathize with others, and so on. It is likewise easy to identify traits which we associate others as being in a good place, having their act together, showing good interpersonal