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I'm Not Sure There Can Be Loving Without Commitment, Although Commitment Takes All Kinds Of Forms, And There Can Be Commitment For The Moment As Well As Commitment For All Time. The Kind That Is Essential For Loving Marriages - And Love Affairs, As Well - Is A Commitment To Preserving The Essential Quality Of Your Partner's Soul, Adding To Them As A Person Rather Than Taking Away.

The Dream Of Romantic Love Is Taken More Seriously In North America Than It Is Anywhere Else In The World, Which Is Why We Believe In Fidelity And Why We Believe In Infidelity As Well. It Is Also, Of Course, What Makes Our Divorce Rate As High As It Is. Falling In Love At First Sight And Instant Gratification Are Part Of The World In Which We Live, So There Are People Who Believe Adamantly In Fidelity. They Just Don't Believe In It For Long.

Cynicism Is A Form Of Cowardice, A Failure Of Courage To Hope.

Our Times Are Obsessed With Finding Fulfillment, So There Are Times When Some People Try Too Hard, And There Are People Who Want To Have The Newest Feelings Just As There Are Those Who Want To Have The Latest Model Car. You Can't Play At Love Any More Than You Can Be Proud Of Your Humility, Or Add Water To Your Perfume And Have It Smell The Same, But Men And Women Both Have Been Known To Try.

Perhaps The Old View Of 'me Breadwinner, You Hausfrau' Worked For Our Grandparents, When People Obligingly Popped Off Before Boring Each Other To Death, But It Won't Work Any Longer Because We Are Living Too Long And Divorce Is Needed Today To Do What Death Acomplished More Economically Before.