The unique definitions of romance

March 12, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

Romance!  Is there a  word in the english language more burdened with preconceptions?  Each of us brings a set of ideas about it into a relationship that are as unique as our own fingerprint; and, truly, as bonded to our identities.  I can no more define romance from your perspective than I could see from inside your own set of eyes!  Therefore, to make a relationship work, I must be flexible in both my definition of what romance is and also its implementation.  To one, it may be a simple red rose.  To another, it would be unthinkable without slinky, sexy lingerie!  In what may be the truest summation of what it is to participate in complete intimacy (and not just it’s physical manifestation, however thrilling it may be!), my definition of romance becomes seated in yours: physical, emotional and spiritual.  Without knowing you at each of these levels, what I act upon in my understanding of romance is, and only can be, incomplete.

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