4) Is it worth trying to resuscitate the poor AnthropomorphicPersonification??
I' don't think it's dead. Do you? Your phrasing of questions 2..4 seems to imply it.. - MoonShadow''
I don't question the [dictionary] definition of romance as "Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love: They kept the romance alive in their marriage for 35 years." I do question the soppier version of:
boy and girl meet
one falls in love with the other
the other returns said affection
they survive any and all trials in their relationship
they live happily ever after
that crops up in poetry and books. The Shakespearean romance seems like a nice idea, but I suspect that that's all it is. - CorkScrew
Uh.. I don't get you. Firstly, do you mean "romance" when you say "love", or have you silently changed the question from "is romance dead" to "does love exist"? Secondly, I know of plenty of examples of the "soppier version" - some couples in loving relationships that survived until death of one of the partners, that clearly I can't parade before you in person since they're dead so you'll just have to take my word for it; others that have survived for 50+ years and are still going strong that I can introduce you to if you're interested - they're very nice people... Is it love? Well, it looks like love, and it feels like love - who am I to say it's not love? - MoonShadow
Y'know, romance does occasionally happen. Stuff works. And so on. Some people do live happily ever after, FSVO happily. Yeah, bad things happen, but you get over it. You work on it. You don't take it for granted. Romance is not dead - but it kind of requires work and emotional investment. As if that's such a revelation... The occasional tribulation is a small price to pay for being not one but half of two. --Requiem
People can love each other yet hate being near each other. For me I think romance requires, beyond love, a certain connection. That a couple have a special look between them they share and understand and giggle over. The "in a space of their own" thing. That, plus a dash of style, of gesture, of intentionally going beyond the normal to say non-verbally "I love you". --Pallando SocialMatters; See also Love, Romance, EitherThisManIsDeadOrMyWatchHasStopped?
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