Most of us do the opposite.

We feel the fear and then talk ourselves out of it, because acknowledging it fully would mean admitting that the person we married, the family we joined, is dangerous, and that admission is so painful that we would rather stay unprepared than make it.

I nearly did that.

I nearly talked myself out of the app a dozen times, felt foolish for it, almost deleted it.

I am alive and free today because, in the end, I listened to the frightened part of me instead of the part that wanted to keep believing everything was fine.