…rather than be thrown out forcibly.
Sure, words spoken in kindness and in gentle tones may assuage the damage to the ego of an unrequited admirer, but make no mistake: for all the niceties, when the target of those affections finds someone that resonates with them, there will be a void as they go hurrying [...]

All emotion is married to action by choice, and only by choice. In all cases, one may choose not to act on a given feeling. While this is fortunately true for the challenges of anger and grief, it also holds for love. A result is that no matter how much one loves another (no [...]

To let fear overtake love is to let death overtake life. Either can erase the other, but fear robs and in extremes kills. Love provides and in extremes mitigates.