Training Wheels

Love is like riding a bike. Well, at least for this analogy it is.

When you're young, there is puppy love. It's intense and you can't imagine another person you will love more. The thing is that you still have training wheels on. You can't live together, you can't get married (at least not for many years), you have your family to make sure that boundaries are kept. You're safe.

Then you grow up. You experience that first real true and crazy love. This is even more intense than the puppy love because there are no training wheels. No boundaries set by parents. You can go all in which is... terribly dangerous. Hopefully you've learned some life lessons from the puppy love but other than that experience, you have nothing to go on. You just have to hope for the best, give your best and go from there. Unfortunately, often times, this is where you'll experience your first heart break. You fall off the bike, scratch yourself all up.

Fall enough times and it's a bit scary to get back on. Those scars don't entirely heal.

That's where I am. I feel ready again but...can I have my training wheels back?