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When the people we love stop caring, stop paying attention, stop investing, and stop fighting for our relationship, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in. Of not being willing to devote time and effort to the relationships. “ The worst betrayal of trust which is the most insidious and corrosive to trust is the betrayal of disengagement. “One could argue that weakness often stems from a lack of vulnerability - when we don’t acknowledge how and where we’re tender, we’re more at risk of being hurt.” Shame

With the exception of anger (which is a secondary emotion, one that only serves as a socially acceptable mask for many of the more difficult underlying emotions we feel), we’re losing our tolerance for emotion and hence for vulnerability.” “The profound danger is that we start to think of feeling as weakness. “Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.” This book definitely challenged me to think about these topics in a totally new way! Introduction She also touches a lot on the concept of shame and how we can combat this harmful emotion.

Background: Brown writes about the way in which allowing oneself to be more vulnerable creates stronger relationships and how we can foster vulnerability in our families and our workplaces.