tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285524632011-04-21T12:03:32.726-07:00Daily tips, ideas, philosophy and street smart wisdom from author and life coach lewis harrisonLewis On The Good Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469469018178551568noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28552463.post-1148319764598682302006-05-22T10:38:00.001-07:002006-05-22T10:42:44.603-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4451/3026/1600/lewis.jpg%20Master.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4451/3026/320/lewis.jpg%20Master.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4451/3026/1600/lewis.jpg%20Master.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4451/3026/320/lewis.jpg%20Master.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Healthy romantic love is a strange soup. A spoonful of physical attraction, a dollop of expectation mixed with a pinch of obession. A wish unrealized drivin by pheramones and endorphins. Sweet longings running 100% miles an hour on a path littered with regrets. It is but one doorway to relationship as is arranged marriage, symbiosis and boundryless sensual exploration.<br />The films “The Love Letter,” and the “English Patient” both celebrate the ability of romantic love or an addiction to the idea of it to shift the world, bring inner peac to some and wreck the lives of many others. Romantic love is the best and the worst that life has to offer. Like a fine meal eaten to excess by the wrong person it can end in indigestion and regurgitation, the memory of what first attracted us to the meal soon buried under the weight of emotional baggage. Some of my favorite memories are of romantic love. But I have to remind my self of the dark side that each of those “romantic” interludes brought with the.<br />Unlike others, I don’t diminish the idea of romantic love, call it puppy love, immature love or even deny that it is real love. It is love but it is a type of love that serves as a doorway to other more sustainable types of love. The types of love that can fertilize intimacy and relationship on a day to day level. <br /><br />I was once in a book store and picked up a book called the something like “The 100 Greatest Romances in History.” As I read each great Romance story; Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio, I realized that they were not about relationship but about a thin, slice of the total love pie; and mostly icing at that! Most of the romances in the book ended badly<br /><br />Someone should right a book, “The 100 Relationships that Survived Against All Odds.” The question is? Who would buy it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28552463-114831976459868230?l=lewisinspires.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lewis On The Good Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469469018178551568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28552463.post-1148319658785473932006-05-22T10:38:00.000-07:002006-05-22T10:40:58.793-07:00Healthy romantic love is a strange soup. A spoonful of physical attraction, a dollop of expectation mixed with a pinch of obession. A wish unrealized drivin by pheramones and endorphins. Sweet longings running 100% miles an hour on a path littered with regrets. It is but one doorway to relationship as is arranged marriage, symbiosis and boundryless sensual exploration.<br />The films “The Love Letter,” and the “English Patient” both celebrate the ability of romantic love or an addiction to the idea of it to shift the world, bring inner peac to some and wreck the lives of many others. Romantic love is the best and the worst that life has to offer. Like a fine meal eaten to excess by the wrong person it can end in indigestion and regurgitation, the memory of what first attracted us to the meal soon buried under the weight of emotional baggage. Some of my favorite memories are of romantic love. But I have to remind my self of the dark side that each of those “romantic” interludes brought with the.<br />Unlike others, I don’t diminish the idea of romantic love, call it puppy love, immature love or even deny that it is real love. It is love but it is a type of love that serves as a doorway to other more sustainable types of love. The types of love that can fertilize intimacy and relationship on a day to day level. <br /><br />I was once in a book store and picked up a book called the something like “The 100 Greatest Romances in History.” As I read each great Romance story; Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio, I realized that they were not about relationship but about a thin, slice of the total love pie; and mostly icing at that! Most of the romances in the book ended badly<br /><br />Someone should right a book, “The 100 Relationships that Survived Against All Odds.” The question is? Who would buy it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28552463-114831965878547393?l=lewisinspires.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lewis On The Good Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469469018178551568noreply@blogger.com2