Dating

When I encountered my first broken heart, it was the loneliest I’d ever been. I grieved as if someone in my life had vanished.

“Run. Bolt before he dies and leaves you heartbroken.” That’s what a friend said when I told her about the cancer-surviving man I had met in the elevator.

Fear can be disabling. Dating can be scary because it means allowing him to love me — and sometimes that’s the hardest part.