Love Lesson No. 1: Vulnerability is important

This is a series of lessons I've learned about love, arranged in no particular order. These lessons have been gleaned from personal experience, friends' stories, movies, books, magazine articles, etc. If you want to share a lesson you've learned about love, email me (rosellaeleanor@gmail.com).

Scott Schuman, the Sartorialist, told New York magazine's Amy Larocca about how his fashion blogger girlfriend Garance Dore's fragility is becoming:

“I grew up reading designers’ ideas about women, like: She’s so strong, she rules the world, whatever. I wouldn’t want to be with a girl like that, who’s type A. Garance is smart, driven, all these great Corsican qualities of self-determination, but she’s totally fragile. Totally insecure. That’s a real human. That’s the whole package.”

It's very important, I believe, to be able to be fragile or vulnerable with our loves. No one can be type A, 100 percent of the time.