Approaching Love.I’m in love. I’m in a new relationship, and newly cohabitating with a partner — for the first time in years. And it’s not your casual, light, easy, skim the surface kind of connection. It’s the kind of relationship that makes you look at all your “stuff.” The stuff hidden in the back of the emotional closet — the array of barriers I have towards love, the walls I’ve put up over the years to protect myself, to keep myself safe. A borderline obsession with independence? Check. A fear of true emotional vulnerability? Check. It’s as if, through this painfully clear mirror of love, I am able to truly see myself for the first time. And through this clarity, I can see all of the patterns and narratives of my past playing out, IRL. destructive) patterns; if my approach to love was part of a pre-written, immutable genetic relationship code. amazing thing happened — sitting around the table with women from all different walks of life and all different interpretations of love, I witnessed with awe and wonder, the capacity we all have to interrogate our understanding of love, and from that interrogation, to create the love we desire in our lives. How do you approach love?|What are the 7 Phases of Love?||What are the first signs of falling in love?|What’s the signs of true love?|