Rate My Romance

Browsing through the never ending questions and answers I seem to find on the internet, I glanced over on the sidebar to find they had an available quiz called “Rate Your Romance”. Okay…. I didn’t click on it and was soon browsing through something else, but it stuck in my mind. How do you rate your romance, and how can someone declare that by answering a few questions they can rate it? Romance means so many different things to different people. Awhile back I thought romance was something very different than how I perceive it now. "I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No...not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening. but love that...overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture." (Shakespeare in Love) Yeah, that was me. Everything was passionate, enrapturing and intense when it came to love and romance. I quickly learned that this wasn’t romance at all, this was lust. Yes, I have to admit I found myself during that first year of marriage, married to a man I had lusted after and yet didn’t know. All I knew of my husband was that he brought calm and peace to my fighting, stubborn spirit, which was good enough for me. Now, six years into our marriage I find that our romance is more than the impassioned desire that used to rule, it’s now a solid foundation. I married someone better than myself, someone that has helped me to become a more teachable and patient person. Someone who is kind and full of charity. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7) “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” (Henry Ward Beecher) That brings me to the conclusion on my romance tirade. I can’t put it any better than that. My romance has molded me into a more spiritual, submissive and hopeful being. I just can’t wait to see where it takes us in ten, twenty, fifty years. I love you Tom, you are my best friend, my soul mate, my Valentine!