DISQUS

alligator_kate · 10 months ago

As long as you love yourself unconditionally first, then yes.

Tonya · 10 months ago

If we're talking about taking a risk like letting yourself trust someone, then yes, that risk is always worth it. We can only truly love with those kinds of open hearted risks. If it's the "see what happens with the bad boy/girl" then well, with as many of those risks as I took in my teens and twenties, I know they're not worth a dime!!

textimage · 10 months ago

is this a rhetorical question? ALWAYS worth it. (this question arrived to me on the day that marks my 16th year with my soul mate.)

Kim · 10 months ago

Taking a risk for love is definitely worth it.

Wazzy · 10 months ago

If everyone is fully capable of being a part of an intimate relationship, then we all have the capacity to participate fully within that. I think that through these risks, we grow, and find out more about ourselves. We stretch our ideas about what is possible.

Traci · 10 months ago

First of all, YES! Always, yes! Secondly, I don't think we have a choice. Love is inherently a risk. It is impossible to love without becoming vulnerable.

debbierodgers · 10 months ago

In the end, all we have that is important is our relationships with our loved ones. Is there anything that could possibly be too great a risk to preserve those? I don't think so.

Even if things don't work out as you thought, you've had love.

missp · 10 months ago

As I look back on my life, I see that I have spent a lot of time in personal relationships.. Some have been great, some not so great.. Overall.. Is it always worth it? ... Have they taken up so much of my time? yes.. Is Love worth it.. "better to have loved and lost, then to not have loved at all...".. each experience brings information that can only be extracted from a heart loved well...So, Yes, Sweet, Yes..

emily · 10 months ago

YES!

Honor yourself and, but, YES!

(btw, GREAT responses group!! What full, loving people are here!!)

CristinaCC · 10 months ago

YES, I see it as a part of unconditional love.

laurie_matthews · 10 months ago

It is... but I feel I always have to keep reminding myself of that. It's time I took that risk for love again!

Jess · 10 months ago

If you feel whole in yourself and being with this person will only add to your life's loveliness - OF COURSE you do it :)

aceofsomething · 10 months ago

I've taken lots of risks for my heart over the years. Some ended up being lovely, some heartbreaking. Looking back I wouldn't change a single thing or give up any of the heartbreak, it's proof I'm open and out there. The only thing I fear when it comes to my heart is not feeling anything at all.

Arianne · 10 months ago

Yes! It took me a little bit of time to learn this one, but it definitely, is always worth it.

hhalepis · 10 months ago

I have to comment on this one...

Love is a tricky thing. Whenever I need a bit of love advice, I can always rely upon the eternal thoughts of Jane Austen. No matter what kind of love predicament you may be in, Jane has thought of it all before.

storyteller · 10 months ago

This week I have had my guts kicked out for loving someone. Love is not safe, ever. Because you walk around with no protection. Love does not make room for pride either. There is nothing guaranteed about love and most certainly there is nothing fair about love. You will be betrayed, on some level. You will be stabbed. You will be abandoned. Humans f**k up everything. We do. I've done it - and we rarely even do it wittingly - hurt someone who loves us. And this time I got hurt. But you know, even after I lay on the floor, pushing my own spleen back into my abdomen...wiping up my own blood...love gave me the strength to reach out and say, "I forgive you. I love you. Now that we understand each other better, let's try again." And that amazing warm burn came over me. That Eternal Bottomless strength. Aha. Love is so big and so mighty and so God - I don't need the smaller ideas of fairness, pride and safety I cling to. With Love I truly am inviincible.

colleenoverman · 10 months ago

I agree with Carrie. As long as you are happy (and safe) in the doing of it, it's always worth it. Better to have no regrets.

Connie · 10 months ago

I agree with Carrie 100%.

lifecoachsandy · 10 months ago

I stayed safe in my choice for a husband and it had been a mistake since the day I said "I do" when I felt "I don't". I finally am free of that safe and not right for me relationship, and I am happy and alive again. I would take huge risks for love, within the bounds of self-respect and self-love.
What held me back in my early relationships was the inability to be an empowered communicator. I am so much better now and can't wait to see what the universe has in store for me the second time around!

Anna · 10 months ago

Defiantly! Because the feeling after is priceless.

Saver Queen · 10 months ago

Yes, it's worth it... as long as you keep listening to yourself!

Sabrina · 10 months ago

Yes, absolutely. When I went from wanting love, to being love, it was then that I could truly receive love and give out of love. It's so worth it!

braziliana · 10 months ago

I so agree with Carie, it is worth it. Love is being true to yourself.If you know what you want, so take the risk!

Christopher · 10 months ago

What a loaded question - do you mean before falling in love? (do your homework first...)

Or after you are in love with someone...do you then take risks? (absolutely....)

brown_eyed_girl · 10 months ago

Tough question....sometimes no, but you never know that until after. A good strategy: picture the little girl (sorry guys!) that you once were, loved or deserving of love, and ask yourself 'is this what I want for her?'

Gail Larsen · 10 months ago

This is a beautiful thought. As adults, we often think we can handle situations in the name of love that shut off the little girl inside who needs to be heard and honored. Thank you for this profound reminder.

Get Togetha · 10 months ago

Life is totally about taking risks and learning lessons. If we play it safe we won't learn a darn thing about ourselves...and leads to a Biff Stiff life....

Victoria Haines · 10 months ago

Absolutely, even if it doesn't work and you get hurt, you have dared to risk it and in doing so opened yourself for the experience

Anna · 7 months ago

Ask this first.... Is it really LOVE? If it is, then it is always worth it.