Are you afraid of falling in love and letting your guard down? Do you want to know whether it is worth it or not to let down your guard and release the deepest most precious parts of yourself? Find out if loving someone makes you vulnerable and if it is worth it by reading this article.

The short answer is yes and no.

Before you get confused, let me explain.

Loving someone doesn’t have to make you vulnerable, but it should.

Only by being vulnerable do we open up the deepest and purest parts of our soul to love adequately.

Sure, we should reserve some of our vulnerability to guard ourselves, but in the interest of loving fully and wholeheartedly, being vulnerable isn’t such a bad thing. 

If we aren’t vulnerable as it relates to love, love becomes but a mere means to an end where we are only doing it because we need it to survive. When we disrupt the flow of being vulnerable, we become closed off to our positive feelings and we close ourselves from our partners. By closing off ourselves we lose the ability to enjoy the positive feelings that come with being in love. Consequently, we become extremely guarded as we live in a prison of our thoughts as to why being vulnerable is wrong and why it will bring us to our demise.

Loving someone should you make you vulnerable.

However, it doesn’t always.

Sometimes we have simply been through too much for too long and our vulnerability becomes hidden in the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves. We’ve endured too much suffering for too long and we feel as if we’re better off hiding our most precious thoughts and feelings from disappointment and pain. We feel that being vulnerable will only lead us to more pain, and often we are right. If we have this deep seated belief that being vulnerable will lead to more pain, we often attract persons who will validate this belief for us. A vicious cycle ensues from which we need to employ strict observation and willingness to break free from its grip.

Sometimes, however, the love is strong enough to dissolve the walls we’ve put up around our hearts.

Sometimes the love is able to ease the pain and allow us to trust again.

Sometimes we become truly vulnerable once more and are able to enjoy the simple pleasures of being truly in love.

The point is that, loving both does and does not make you vulnerable. It depends on a lot of factors. The person you’re falling in love with, the situations you’ve been through, how willing you are to trust again, and how much you value love.

In the best of cases, loving the right person makes you vulnerable and it makes it worth it.