How to write a romance story
He was mortified, thinking she’d found someone else — unaware that she’d become so sick from rheumatic fever that she nearly died.
He was relieved to learn there was a reason her letters had ceased, but now he agonized over her well-being.
Finally, after two long years, he was able to return home to her. Finally, they were able to get on with their lives.
The romance my parents enjoyed is a dying art among younger people.
Romance is about kindness and honesty and graciousness and affection — it’s about patience and sacrificing now to enjoy greater fulfilment later on.
It’s about trust. It is the sense that someone places you above all others and cares more for your needs than his own.
My parents really did believe that when they married they became one under God.
They fully accepted that their commitment to each other was to “have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do them part.”
Some consider these dated concepts in a modern era of instant gratification, cynicism, self-centeredness and hook-up dating, but without the principles on which my parents built their love, romance cannot flourish.
My father told me on many occasions that the first time he set his eyes on my mother he knew he would marry her — and his proudest achievement was that he made it happen.
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