I've come to have no self-esteem.

[Luis Flmg]

Japan and the West: The Perception Gap

This book first published in 1998 containes the work of Six members of the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), an area unit of the Institute for Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. They were motivated by the fact that after over a century of cultural, economic and political...

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"I've come to have no self-esteem", a line from the film Kramer x Kramer.
Does come to mean start to in this sentence?

 

[emsr2d2]

It's not really the same as "I've started to ...", no. I'd say it's closer to "I've reached a point where I have no self-esteem". For me, it suggests that reaching the point of having no self-esteem has taken a reasonably long time.

 

[Holmes]

"I've come to have no self-esteem", a line from the film Kramer x Kramer.

The line is actually in the past perfect, and there is no contraction (see 0:45-0:59 of this video clip).

"He was very involved in his career, and because of his attitude toward my fears and his inability to deal with my feelings, I had come to have almost no self-esteem."