"How am I supposed to live without you?"

"How can I go on?"

"I'm nothing without you."

"You're all I have."

"Life would be nothing without you."

"I'm lost without you."

"I'd die without you."

"I'm lost without your love."

"I can't hold on."

"I need you."

These are all so common to us today that we don't even think twice about them. Unfortunately, they sound a lot more like the words of a desperate psychotic stalker than the words of a person who has chosen to love.

There are seven Hebrew words for love (brotherly love, romantic love, sexual love, etc) but none of them depict the kind of codependent, fear-based stuff we hear from mainstream media, music, and advertising, and those industries would certainly lose a significant market share if we didn't depend on their goods and services to keep us feeling good about ourselves until we can find someone else to buy stuff for.

In this day, fear—unfortunately—is very profitable in nearly every industry, even for government contractors.