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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
2. I think sometimes people who are out looking for "romantic love" are looking for some googly eyed relationship where they float around on cloud nine. That isn't romantic love. That is a dream world handed to us by books, tv etc. Romantic love is a day by day, feet on the ground, through good times & bad love for someone you are glad to have by your side. Romantic love is a friendship first and a friendship last. All the rest is just sandwiched inside the fact that, when the day is done, these 2 people just love to be with each other. THAT... my friend... after 16 years of marriage you are still excited when your best friend comes home from work... is as romantic as it gets.
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Good post!
The "chemical" attraction needs to be there...for obvious reasons...  However, most people mistake that initial chemistry for love, when in reality LOVE is what you do day to day with or for another person, even when the "chemistry" has sometimes gone AWOL.
The romantic man is the one who commits his life to cherishing his woman, and then sticks to his commitment. You can provide all the flowers and dinners and jewelry and kisses and walks on the beach and talks by the fire you want to, but if a man won't commit to a relationship fearlessly and selflessly, he's missed the point of romance completely. 
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To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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