Love, Romance and Passion
- Danielle Sebastian Berry
- Feb 26, 2019
- 2 min read
For those of us who are hopeless romantics, who believe in the happiliy-ever-after, that there is a such thing as passion so deep that it makes you want to crawl under the other person's skin, there is the ever-satisfying romance novel. I'm not talking about the "smoldering stare of a dark stranger that beckons the heroine to come hither". I'm talking about the stories about real people with insecurities, troubles and questions. Let's be honest, the true love story is far from perfect. As a matter of fact, when there is a man and a woman involved, it's just down right messy. But isn't that what makes it exciting. In real-life men and women get on each others last nerve. We fight, argue, hate, curse, only to be drawn to each other like a moth to a flame - hopeless to resist the pull that seems hell-bent on destroying the last little bit of who we think we are. Yet, we keep coming back. Even though our hearts have been broken, resuscitated then healed, we cannot help but feel like the emotional roller coaster was all worth it. After marriage and kids, our minds will often drift back to the red-hot passion that once raced through us during courtship with our spouses. We will find ourselves looking to those same spouses to bring back the magic. Valentines Day, anniversaries and birthdays will be the target days to prompt or spouses to steal us away from the chaos of our lives to recapture what is lost. Gazing into the face our our life partner to spot any sign of the eager-to-please lover we once knew, we KNOW the passion is still there. Deep. Deep. Down. After all, men fall hard. Love deep. Are willing to do anything to make that one woman his for life. That's what draws us to the romance novel. The need to remember what it felt like to want someone so badly they were worth the fight. To remind ourselves that their flaws were small and we would accept and love them despite how deep the scars were. The reminder that there is a such thing as happily-ever-after. To never forget the passion was once real. As a Happy Valentines Day gift to you from me, the first ebook of The Inner Music Series, Phrasing will be free on Feb 14th for one day only HAPPY READING!
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