Most of us hope that love will save us from “the worst thing” we can imagine about ourselves. For some, the worst thing is being alone. For others, the worst thing is being found worthless. Each of us hides this deepest wound from our partners and often from ourselves, while simultaneously craving love’s absolution. Undefended Love takes us right into the thicket of the worst thing, and it fairly skips along with the bone-deep certainty of knowing that true intimacy frees us. True intimacy utilizes fear and scythes through illusion to leave us, as Marlena and Jett have discovered, “at ease
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