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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448517" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Defense of Romantic Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said: <br>'In defense of Love I have only Faith and Necessity to offer; <br>without Romantic Love I fear the species dies.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well' he said 'Romantic Love is a recent and western notion you see<br>and has existed only in the last 200 years and mostly in the west-invented I think by the Victorians and the Romantic Poets.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So tell me then my friend' he said 'what is Romantic Love good for? Is it not best to assure that a couple has good families involved since after all is it <br>not true that what is happening here is not a tryst but two families coming <br>together? <br>And too, no couple can make it alone on Love's Grist..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arranged marriages has been the norm and is the best if the test is<br>longevity.'Romantic Love too often he said ends in Unromantic divorce miserable kids and True Love's Adversities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Are you saying then she said we jettison Romantic Love and its pursuits? '<br> 'In that case let me state, then combine, what I take to be True Love's true defenses.<br>Love its true, is the bonding start, but behind that is unlimited Faith in the<br>the Other unrelenting.<br>Otherwise we would all marry only near clones of ourselves<br>and destroy, in life and family, all variety.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Even cave people insisted that marriages take place outside the tribe with others not only to avoid incest but, too, to diversity the gene pool which <br>undiversified would result in the death of the species due to genetic stultification.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So Romeo and Juliet came to a bad end but their idea was correct. Opposites attract for good reason. It is built into the genes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So in defense of Romantic Love there can be no higher defense than this.<br>What does marriage arrangements offer in retort- a dull family contract<br>endless tryists, and consorts where old men marry young girls who emotionally bolt and emotionally re-marry some younger buck.<br>Or if of similar age, they stay together for the sake of family.<br>Humm, too often this home feels like prison camp.<br>No carry me away to Love's excess even if under distress it may crumble<br>but lacking love in marriage is no bliss and looks more like accommodation<br>lacking True Love's Sweetness.<br>Ah, he said we both have our view on Love and no-love estrangement: <br>perhaps we two could make some arrangement and see if True Love blooms? <br>She smiled 'Well, they say True Love begins with humor. <br>Sure, let's talk some more.'<br>He said; <br>'Beautiful.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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