The version of you that loved them is not something to be ashamed of. They were brave and open and willing and they walked into something with their whole heart because that is who you are. That is who you have always been. And the right person, when they come, will not see that openness as something to take advantage of. They will see it as the extraordinary thing it is. And for the first time it will be safe to be exactly that open. And you will finally understand what all of this was for.