When Your Love Language is Fear — and How to Counter It

Fear underpins many relationship struggles

Karen Nimmo
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 14, 2022

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Fear comes up a lot in therapy.

It makes sense: Fear is a basic human emotion. In its many different disguises, it lies at the base of most, if not all, problems. Including those we have in love.

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Karen Nimmo
Forge
Writer for

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for health and happiness. karen@onthecouch.co.nz