One vulnerability slip and the walls are coming down

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Sometimes my wife and I talk about my guarded heart and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop attitude; she tells me how exhausting it is that I can’t just relax and accept that she really does love me.

I couldn’t agree more. It is totally exhausting.

But after a lifetime of constructing a barrier — a fortress really — between who I was and who I want…