Is Passionate Love Still The Ideal?

 


I have questions, well probably just one burning one. Are there answers out there? I mean real answers, not intellectual ponderings. The people I know personally don’t tell me stories about Romeo and Juliet experiences. So I have to ask, is it a real thing? Is it the Big Foot of relationships? Everyone sort of secretly believes it’s out there but doesn’t own up to it in rational discussions. I’ve lived with it since I was old enough to grow crushes on boys and only recently in mid-life, happily married, has it risen like Nessie to the surface unbidden but unavoidable. I did not marry a man I fell in love with passionately. I have never fallen in love passionately in my entire life. Unless sad one-sided crushes count. So I am left with so many questions. But mostly one, is Romeo and Juliet real or a pretty lie?

 

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