Tag: Romance
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Wedded Bliss
Yeah well so much for wedded bliss. An unknown elixir I’ll always miss. So tell me when will it all start? After the fault finding of my heart? Or post hissing names in my head? Or after the blow meant me dead? Was that when the happy marriage began? Or will I…
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The Fifth Love
Of a morning, I’m woken up by the song Higher Love by Steve Winwood. And not every morning, I ask myself, “What is this song really about?””Where is this higher love he keeps thinking of anyway?” Perhaps this higher love might be one of C. S. Lewis‘s The Four Loves: Storge: Love experienced by and for family members,…
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Sex and Vacuuming : A Game of Mutual Selfishness
Kathy Lette’s If Your Wife Doesn’t Want Sex Then Try Doing the Vacuumming article echoes the Annabel Crabb‘s The Wife Drought re having it all and needing a wife. Like the old expression, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage“, there isn’t much of that anymore. Yes, unfortunately, I’ve heard this all before. In the throes…
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Rumi’s Puzzle of Love
Though long deceased, the Persian poet Rumi regularly sends me quotes on Facebook. Last week’s quote was “To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.” I was puzzled. And I tried to analyse it. And became more puzzled. So this time took my advice to others: when puzzled, describe don’t explain! So while I’m…
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On Unselfish Love…
There is almost an obsession with being loved unselfishly. Out there is the perfect person who will supply your needs forever. Your mission impossible is to find that person, convince them to love you and you will be happy forever. And you will love them back, but secondly. Unfortunately, this love is the one that…
Andrew James Whalan 