[...] Saint Nektarios uses a daily example to show the relationship between love and fear: "When a mother, after toil and anguish, puts her bosom to sleep, and someone knocks on the door of the house, she answers, disturbed, 'Be quiet, for I fear you will wake my child!'"

Here lies the correct interpretation of "fear" within marriage. It is the fear, the anxiety about losing love in everyday life. Does habit cool the initial intensity of love and extinguish the flame of first attraction? [...]

(from the foreword, Elder Elias G. Diakoumakos)