LOVE is the most basic of human needs, right behind food, clothing, and shelter. It's the universal emotion of all humans.
Ever wondered why there are so many songs about love? So many movies with at least a subplot of love? So many books about love?
We crave love and acceptance the way desert craves rain.
For love, wars have been waged. Feuds fought. Lives endangered. Parents defied. Thrones abdicated. Risks taken.
Does true love promise there will never be problems? No! Love brings the grandest joy, the deepest sense of belonging, the most exquisite pain.
Romance is loving all through the drudgery, the sorrow, the flat humdrum, and the disappointment, because ultimately, the relationship is worth saving.
Romance is a husband driving all the way across town to give his wife a hug when she's having a terrible day, or taking her to her favorite chick flick. It's a wife cuddling up to her husband and trying to look interested in his favorite sports team on TV, or working side by side with him in the yard.
Love is when a man and woman would rather be together than with anyone else. It's living in the moment. It's creating memories to cherish for years to come.
As a romance novelist, I challenge couples in love in my quest to create a believable romantic novel. In my books, I create fantasy worlds based on real historical settings. My fantasy, Queen in Exile has a combination of Medieval England, ancient Rome, and Victorian England. My Regency romance novels, are, of course, set in Regency England. But that's just the setting. The stories have some adventure and some intrigue, but ultimately, are about people searching for acceptance and belonging, and most of all, love. The couples and their emotions are real to me.
I always strive to develop characters that are multi-dimensional, have a history, have flaws that make them human, and have strengths that set them apart from the crowd. The main characters aren't always the best looking, or the smartest or most powerful, but they have courage, honor and perseverance...and a deep need to give and receive love.
What’s your definition of romance? How do you show love? What's your most favorite way to have love expressed to you?
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7 comments:
Love is wanting someone else's happiness more than you want your own.
Love is the ultimate leap of faith. It is trusting another so much while admiring them that your own needs are replaced by the needs of two souls together. If done right, when those souls collide they will fuse as one forever. Tom Williams
Love is sacrificing whatever it takes to for someone you care about. Whether it be money, service, time, or the relationship itself. In putting others before yourself, you show that you value them more than anything.
Love is never having to say I love you because the actions speak louder than the words themselves.
Love is never having to say your sorry :) I couldn't resist that lol. I do think it's when you think more of the other person than yourself. And honesty - those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
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Love is being the first to say I'm sorry, because your ego means less to you than their feelings.
I am stealing this from the author Coleen Houck - but I loved it - she wrote a poem called Love is Grooming in her Tiger's Curse series. The poem is stellar, somewhat morbid, and true. It depicts all different scenes of "grooming" between a human's morning breath and messy hair to emptying a bed pan for an aged grandparent to animals licking clean their young. I thought it a "potent" telling of what love is. I also think it is unselfishness.
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