Does LOVE keep you SAFE or VULNERABLE?

Question

Does LOVE keep you SAFE or VULNERABLE?
Safe from what.... at Risk of what?

Answer

To expand on quotSweetbrunettesquot great response, many people make the mistake of thinking that being vulnerable means being at the mercy of the other person like falling backwards and trusting that the other person will catch you.brbrIn truth, you can feel just as vulnerable by being strong, competent, in control. Being vulnerable simply means that you have been able to drop the defensive facade long enough to allow someone else to see who you are. It is difficult, frightening, but also exhilirating and essential. How else can love surive. It needs a real connection.brbrBut the perception of vulnerability is always more apparent than real. And what is risked is not the rejection by the other, but rather than acceptance, because that means that the world has changed. Perhaps for the better, but still we must struggle with the disturbing idea that we were wrong about the world that the facade wasnt necessary !brbr we may shudder to think about all the time we spent maintaing the facade and what else we may be wrong about!!!.brbrLove encourages us to realize that we are strong enough to confront the fact that we may have been wrong about the world, that we a strong enough to deal with this vulnerability. brbrLove tells us that it is worth it! Because although Love doesnt keep us safe, it allows us to realize that we dont have to be so concerned about being safe.brbrAs has been said by quotSweetbrunettequot, quotTo risk is to livequot.