Holding back to avoid pain

“That’s Frank. He never gets close to anyone.”

If you don’t invest in relationships, if you deliberately hold back then yes you do get to avoid the lowest of the lows but by default you are also avoiding the highest of the highs.

Keeping your distance certainly will work for avoiding pain but at what cost?

As the famous Alfred Lord Tennyson quote goes…

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’