Love

Love has no obligations. Fear is full of obligations.

All the forms of human love we discussed—affectionate love, friendship love, sexual love, and committed love—are simply responses to an outside stimulus. They are not loves that act independently of the one being loved. We find a person of the opposite sex attractive; the potential for sexual love is birthed. We see someone’s innocence or kindness,

love is sharing what we already have, not relying on someone else to give us something to supplement.

My favorite definition of love is giving someone the power to destroy us and trusting they won’t use it.