I love it and teach it, have published it, and tutor kids in math at all levels through calculus and statistics. I like the power it provides, and am always working on some problem or other, usually in evolutionary genetics.
I've worked with a lot of people who hated math, who very quickly learned to love it. Some folks, however, are just drawn to it naturally; I think it takes a willingness to tackle a problem purely visually and logically -- convert a picture into the corresponding equations. Verbal skills don't seem to help much at all, in fact they seem to get in the way.
Couldn't live without math
