*Abbi*
I'm sitting in my room, evaluating everything that my sister said to me earlier. I prefer not to think about it, but her words keep echoing through my head.
"....your irrational fear of the mate bond."
Maybe it is irrational. I don't know. I just know that years of watching my father struggle with my mother's death has had an impact and no, obviously it wasn't a good one.
But how do I change that? Does fear ever really go away? Do we just learn to live with it? Or confront it and refuse to give it the power to control us? I've never been one to be afraid of anything... anything but this. This is my one weak spot. The one and only thing that truly terrifies me.... giving up control over my heart. Giving someone the power to break it and me.
The fear of the mate bond, the fea
