41. Kelley saw the movie as an opportunity to explore compelling extremes of romantic love. 42. Love in the Western world has come to mean, in the popular imagination, romantic love almost exclusively. 43. Most of us will never be blindsided by overwhelming romantic love. 44. Now, romantic love is the major reason people get married. 45. Other commonly reported symptoms of romantic love are euphoria, hyperactivity, loss of appetite and sleeplessness. 46. Only relatively recently did the ideal of romantic love supplant these reasons. 47. Our notion of romantic love had its beginnings in these stories of adultery. 48. Red remains the most popular, signifying romantic love. 49. Romantic love is fine. 50. She reveals her own heartache over romantic love and over her struggle to have a child. |