Yo, today's QOD is being afraid to risk keeps us lonely.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the court of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton, Sean Croxton.com.

We got Leo Bouscal, the only show today. And he kind of picks up where Carla Harris left off

yesterday because she was talking about taking risk at the end of the show yesterday.

And Leo's going to talk about taking risk in your relationship, risking being intimate, risking,

being vulnerable, risking, being who you really are. Leo Bouscal, he's coming up.

Being afraid to risk keeps us lonely. But anyway, I want to tell you about what these people said

about why they don't want to risk in terms of being intimate. One said, and this is a real common

answer, I'm afraid to be hurt. You know, every time I hear a comment like that, I think of

William Faulkner's comment in wild palms when he said, if I had to choose between pain and nothing,

I would always choose pain. Another said, you know, I get bored with relationships right away.

As soon as we know each other in the newness vanishes, so does the excitement.

Another, people don't want intimacy, just sex.

Another, and here's a common one, I'm afraid to let anyone know who I really am because if they

knew, they'd be horrified. Oh my goodness. Nothing that you are in your secret part of hearts,

am I not also? Nothing that you have ever done at your most terrible moments have I not also done.

It's always a shock when a person goes to a counselor and gets up all this courage to tell him

this monumental thing, this counselor that has heard and heard, and you tell him or her, and they say,

yes, and what else? And you say, what else? Did you hear what I said? Yes, I heard, but

choose you said such and said, you mean other people have felt this too?

Oh, you bet. And you find that out when you dare to be intimate with someone,

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