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Friday, March 24, 2006
A Question of Love
Is love a feeling or a choice?
It's a good question. One worthy of a romance writer's thoughtful response. When this question was posed to a class of freshmen who were studying Romeo and Juliet, their nearly unanimous response was that it is a feeling. After all, they asked why would Romeo and Juliet fall for one another under such dreadful circumstances if choice had anything to do with it? Indeed. Surely we can all agree that initial impressions and chemical reactions do play havoc with our hormones and our minds. Much of the opening chapters in a romance focus heavily on the "feeling" part of falling in love. It is in subsequent chapters, however, that we test the depth of our characters' meddle in how they choose to handle all the obstacles that an author puts between them and their ultimate soul mate.
While I would have to agreee that feeling has a great deal to do with the honeymoon phase of a relationship, I would argue that it is definitely a choice to stay in love. We chose to stay in love when our significant other becomes ill, gets fat and bald, or makes some terrible mistake. We hope he will do the same when we fall short of Miss America runway ideals too.
One of the things that I love about being a romance writer is that I get to chose love every single day. With all apologies to Shakespeare aside, I'm glad I don't have to kill my characters off for them to find everlasting love. As I head into a blessed week of spring break, I wish you all love and laughter and thank you for your patience with my first experience with blogging. It's been a blast.
posted by Cathleen Galitz at 3:49 PM
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