Risking love may be too big a step. It always has been for me. At 66 I'm still working on issues of getting to know someone slowly, safely, deeply, fully ... IRL. Letting a relationship grow in the time right for the relationship and the two people in it.

Usually in my life I've either tried to rush things and ruined them by forcing things and scaring off the other person or, conversely, freaking out because I'd project my eventual loss of everything and run ... before I could lose, thus losing it all.

I'm actually making bits of progress here and there, learning new things, gaining new insights daily.