You have the courage to drop all your defenses and totally open to your partner. You may remember the moments in your life when you felt fully yourself—unguarded and available—with another person. You remember them because they are rare and because they are so beautiful and precious. You felt unusually seen, known, and touched in those encounters because your protectors weren’t screening out your partner’s energy. Likewise, you extended an unfiltered love toward your partner. When you have courageous love, such encounters become much more common because the stakes are lower. If such utter
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