We can look on as an aunt and uncle berate each other year after year and know that, despite appearances, they love each other. There was the time when he thought he was going to lose her to cancer, or the time when she jumped to his defense when somebody else attacked him.

Nonetheless, we don’t want to be that couple. So, if the scenario is starting to feel a little too familiar, don’t wait any longer to get off the path.

“I know she loves me, but it sure doesn’t feel like it when she continues to reject 70 percent of my physical advances,” writes a reader.

“The man must love me — he’d do anything for me. But I swear he responds to less than half of what I say,” writes another.

We’re not content to simply know somebody’s love is there for us, should we be in dire need. We want to feel the love and take pleasure in it, day in and day out. That desire is fundamental to being human.

Unfortunately, many people live without the warmth and nourishment of feeling continually loved, despite the fact that they, like the miserable aunt and uncle, are loved.… More

To choose love over fear, is to let go of our security blanket and trust what we cannot see. It is to realize that there will never be enough stuff to make us feel good enough. But when we have reclaimed fearless love, we know it is enough. We are enough! … More

You can’t pull your parachute cord before you jump.
And you can’t exercise your faith before you leap.
Take the leap! … More