I would like to add to the previous responses that your heart is not made of ice. It is warm and beating inside of you just waiting to love but you have learned to hide behind walls to protect yourself. This is ok. You did it to stay safe. Your challenge now is to learn how to build new bounderies are strong enough to be safe within but flexable enough that they will allow you to feel those feelings of love that are buried deep inside you.
Take care,
Carrie

<font color=green>Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross