don't worry, i am the same way about relationships. i find myself running away everytime something even remotely serious comes along. the fear of being hurt again doesn't make you a coward. you have been hurt before so it's more like being cautious than anything else. that's the way i think of it anyway...
then again, you are pretty old to start a new relationship. hehe
just kidding.
its always seemed to me mor oftent han not that what was missing to make it love was not some intagible something, but simply the ability to call it love. there are many forms of love and ways to love. people get to caught up in comparing to some previous love that they cant accept a new and different love that life presents.
"Whether its loveless sex or loveless spaghetti and meatballs, if youve prepared the feast and are consuming it without love, your missing the most extraordinary part of the experience" Neal Donald Walch, Conversations With God
point being that if you can say you love spaghetti, then why not a human being??
hi i am fine. i am just never online these days, sorry. thanks for asking though. you don't sound like a coward. it sounds slightly evil, but sometimes learning to accept a new love can finish healing the wounds caused by an old one.
"A close friend suggested this was a form of cowardice. The fear of having my heart broken again."
...thats not cowardice, it's human nature. when you meet the right person all that may suddenly not matter anymore anyway. love isn't something you can really control.
then again, you are pretty old to start a new relationship. hehe
just kidding.