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What Things Might Be Holding You Back?
1. You’re scared of getting emotionally hurt.
There’s no way you can avoid this; even when you’re madly in love with someone, there will be times when they will inevitably hurt you. Love is not there to offer you pure safety. There will always be that risk of abandonment, pain, hurt, trust, and them just giving up on you. In a real relationship, you’ll never have any control over those things. It’s not as if you find your person and all of those things vanish.
If anything finding someone who’s truly worth it means you have a higher risk of this happening because there’s so much on the line. At some point, everyone will hurt you, but you get to decide if they’re worth the pain.
Now you must have boundaries sure. But developing a pattern of emotional “protection” each time you go through heartache, this will keep you from really being able to connect with someone new, the person who will do their best to protect your heart.
Loving someone deeply and having them love you will never be safe. It’s the very opposite of that. Art some point, you’ll share bills and a house. That person is a bloody liability! They’re passively positioned to hurt you. You have to be okay with that.
