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The Effects of the Media on Romance

Where do our irrational romantic impulses come from? Are they just something we naturally want; after all, everyone likes to be spoiled. But often we equate all romance with grand gestures, or expect our relationships to play out like fairy tales. We have the media to blame for that. I know I sound like a broken record sometimes, and it must seem like I think we shouldn’t watch movies or television. I don’t believe that at all, but I can testify that too many romcoms, or at least, not approaching them in the right way, can have a negative effect. … Continue reading →

What Your Dog Says About You

I don’t know if this is a new trend or an old one experiencing a revival, but lately I’ve seen a lot of “what does your dog’s breed say about you?” style articles. I’ve even seen a few ones related to romance: what does your boyfriend’s dog say about him, or about his sex life? While I find the latter a bit of a stretch, I think maybe there might be some truth in the former. The breed of one’s dog might say a bit more about one’s living situation than personality, so that two vastly different people might both … Continue reading →

Contrasting Romances in Much Ado About Nothing

Perhaps my favorite example of my type of romance is the Shakespeare play “Much Ado About Nothing.” I like it because it’s a great play (the original romantic comedy), and I admit because a petty part of me likes the legitimacy Shakespeare lends my ideals of romance and marriage. Enter the two couples: the young Claudio and Hero, in starry-eyed infatuation with one another, and the older bickering Beatrice and Benedick, who always try to outdo each other in a war of wits. Benedick and Claudio are soldiers who made the acquaintance of Beatrice and Hero when they stayed at … Continue reading →

Free eBooks for Your Kindle – Week of February 8, 2012

One of the great things about the Kindle is that it makes it way more convenient for you to carry around the book that you are currently reading. Amazon.com tends to offer free ebooks for the Kindle, that are completely legal for you to download. This week, you might want to check out some free Romance novels on your Kindle. Just in time for Valentine’s Day! Irresistible Forces is a romance novel by Brenda Jackson. You can download it to your Kindle from Amazon.com for FREE right now. The story is about Taylor Steele, who goes on a “procreation vacation” … Continue reading →

Are You Speaking the Same Language?

When my husband was in high school, he discovered that he has a knack for learning foreign languages. Since that time, he has learned six, and is currently working on Italian. He reads books from different countries all the time, sometimes forgetting that English is his native tongue. Some of those other languages are constructed very differently from English, and there are times when this wreaks havoc with our communication as a married couple. Some of these languages don’t use connecting phrases. This makes things quite interesting when it comes to understanding what he’s saying to me. For instance, yesterday … Continue reading →

Real Romance

Romance to many of us, might mean gifts of flowers or jewelry or declarations of undying love. It might be special celebrations and candlelit dinners. And yes, there are times when every marriage could do with a little dose of those romantic moments. But what about the real romance of being married? The real romance can just be the joy of curling up next to the same person each night and knowing that they’re going to be right there when you wake up in the morning, every morning. It can be having that special someone to share important news and … Continue reading →

When You Don’t Agree

Did you have fun with the quiz? Do you find out anything you didn’t know about your spouse? Sometimes a quiz can highlight areas where we are different. Many times it won’t matter if his favorite color is red and yours is blue, except maybe when it comes to decorating. If you want to paint a room a color he can’t live with or vice versa, then it could create problems you will have to work through. For example a man I knew years ago would not have any green in his house at all. He hated green. Another male … Continue reading →

What About Romance?

Romance– just the mere word is enough to send some guys running for cover. Others, like the young man last night who got down on bended knee in the sand with a little box and asked his girlfriend to marry him, know how to be romantic. Incidentally she said yes. It’s something that’s happened before on our beaches in summer and it is romantic. As for the words romantic movie, some men wouldn’t be caught within a hundred yards of a movie theater showing a romantic movie. I’m glad my husband isn’t like this. His favorite movie is Casablanca. Another … Continue reading →

Pregnancy and Romance

There’s a line I love in “Love Comes Softly,” a Hallmark movie starring Katherine Heigl, about a widow who must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. In this particular scene she’s explaining to young Missie how she became pregnant with her late husband. She says, “My husband Aaron loved me so much that it spilled over and made a baby.” Missie says, “What spilled over?” “It,” Marty replies. Missie asks, “What is it?” Marty says, “The love.” It’s a cute way to explain pregnancy to a child, and yet it’s funny how dangerously close to the … Continue reading →

What’s Wrong with Young Marriages?

You often hear meaning people say that some couples are too young to get married. There is a theory and some evidence to suggest that young marriages don’t work. Yet years ago, many people were married much younger than they are today. Once 18 wasn’t considered young to get married. In fact you will find many of those who have been married fifty years or more would have been married around this age or certainly before 21. Do the math. You’d have to be married fairly young or live a long time to rack up that many years. In the … Continue reading →