Originally Posted by
biminiblue 
I learned to be careful and to guard my heart. I make everything romantic and larger than life. Not saying I will remember this lesson- but there is it.
I do that too. I love that about myself. Totally worth the pain. Not at the time of course but in the final analysis it is. I try to remember that it is a reflection of my own capacity for love and not so much about the object it was directed toward.