What's it really all about?

[Thinker]

The energy of love trumps the energy of fear.
If I act out of love when would I have something to fear?

That's a good, positive message coach - almost something that would appear on one of those motivational posters...

...but man is it tough to swallow.

If you act out of Love, and that Love is rejected or taken advantage of, then that hurts - really hurts.

Do if you act out of Love, you still have something to fear...

For many of us the gut level reaction is to avoid Loving in order to avoid just that pain (ie "I don't give a Flying F___ whether you stay or go! Don't let the door hit you in the @ss on the way out"). Leave them before they finally leave you.

That is the gut level reaction of THE FEAR. For me, the Love has to be stronger than the Fear, but I am not sure that (or am not yet at a place where) the Love replaces the Fear.