Consider this quote by C.S. Lewis about the risk of loving:

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, air-less—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

However, I think it bears stating now that Jesus said that heaven is both “within you” and “at hand.”  He taught us to pray in the Lord’s Prayer, “as in heaven so on earth.” So you are perfectly safe loving here and now. Nothing could make you less vulnerable. Loving is the whole point of life, and to not love is the greatest risk of all.