Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.
When you're in a relationship you really care about, you want to protect it and not talk about it.
With everything, especially romantic relationships, you have to protect your heart. That doesn't mean you can't show up and be able to give this person a piece of you and be open to being yourself.
You learn more about yourself in intimate relationships than any other endeavor. I can go do 'King and I' and sing out in front of 1,000-plus people, but trying to open up about something that's bothering me with somebody that I'm in a relationship with? That's the scariest thing.
