Love is dangerous precisely because it invites surrender. Although we may try to give and receive love in measured doses, both our own deepest longings and the very nature of love bid abandon. But abandon brings us right up to the edge of an inner abyss. We are suddenly confronted by a series of “what if” questions, all of them pregnant with potential peril. What if I surrender to this love and am again hurt? What if I abandon myself to this lover and he or she fails me? What if I reveal myself and am rejected? What if I am overwhelmed by the strength of my own need for love? Or what if I am
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