So, maybe it is less about worrying about acting as if one has never been hurt. Maybe it is more about trusting myself to put myself on the line and still be whole. Maybe it is about knowing how much of myself is appropriate to share and how much is “sharing” masquerading as false intimacy. Maybe I need to trust my own inner strength, for those times my beloved disappoints, because we are human, after all. Maybe it is about learning from past hurts but not having them dictate my present or my future… 7 months ago