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This week: A Dance Lingers On-Love After Marriage Edited by: fyn  
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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain
"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner." - Amy Bloom
"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." - Joanne Woodward
"You don't need to be on the save wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves." - Toni Sciarra Poynter, From This Day Forward: Meditations on the First Years of Marriage
"I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." - Ellen Goodman
"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." - Don Fraser
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
and finally.....
"Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed
We vowed our true love though a word wasn't said
The world was in bloom, there were stars in the skies
Except for the few that were there in your eyes.
The night seemed to fade into blossoming dawn
The sun shone anew but the dance lingered on
Could we but relive that sweet moment sublime
We'd find that our love is unaltered by time."
- lyrics to "The Anniversary Waltz," composed by Dubin/Frankl |
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Anyone besides me remember 'Soap Operas?' For years back in the 70's through the 90's
I used to watch three of them a day. I had two and a half hours of disappearing into people's
lives who had romance and love and excitement and travel. They also had three life times
of disasters and tragedies crammed into twenty years. Well, that is, until the two current
love interests FINALLY got married. Then, unless secret children, ex-spouses or unknown
parents appeared out of the woodwork, that two episode glamor shot and candle-lit wedding
vows spelled the voice of doom and you knew that one or the other would be dead soon.
In romance novels, if the grand and glorious wedding doesn't end the book, (with perhaps the
epilogue showing them surrounded by x number of children in some happy family setting)
then one or the other is kidnapped, lost at sea, accused of a crime against whichever king
or queen or emperor is particular to the story line or a child is missing etc.
No drama equals no story.
So I wonder, why this seems to be the case in general. Anyone out there married? Do you not
have drama in your lives? I do. Don't things happen that are pathetically sad or ridiculously funny?
Don't things happen such that you fall in love over and over again? Haven't you learned more about
your spouse since you were married than you ever know beforehand? Aren't you the king or queen
of compromise? Doesn't your spouse understand you better than perhaps anyone (except, maybe,
your mother) and don't you both know the other to the point you can answer the unasked questions?
Isn't there sufficient drama, humor and understanding here to create story lines? I think there is. So,
is it that peole don't want to read happy? Are they only escaping into a book so their life can seem better?
I don't know about you, but I haven't been trekking the world of late, and my entire tiny three bedroom ranch
would fit inside the great room of some of the houses you see in the movies--and let me tell you what-
I would NOT want to have to clean one of those mansions. (Ah but the tribe of maids most of them have would
be nice-assuming I could pay for them. Which I cannot nor do I ever think I will be able to afford.
So, to my way of thinking, aside from a pathetic moment of 'wouldn't it be nice?' I am left with more of a condescending
attitude than one of escape. In other words, something of a, "If they have all that and they aren't happy, then they
need to come back to the real world." attitude.
So, why aren't there stories set in the real world? There are, some. And weirdly enough, they tend to be the 'true story' ones.
Next year this time, I am sure there will be a movie out about the miners trapped in the mine for months. Ah, but there
was intense drama there...Are they alive? Will they live? How will they get out? (Blather, blather)
And there are other books, of course. I guess I just wonder why there aren't more of them.
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Lunarmirror  writes:MASHALLAH Fyn you are one of the indisputable favorite writers of mine in WDC?! Please congratulate your parents for me - By Allah Almighty it is miraculous that they found her ring! (In fact the love is even present in a grain of sand was the subject in the fourth "Prince of Persia" video game ^_^) And I congratulate you that you "stick" well in your own romance - May Allah Almighty bless you two.
I opt the same when I write about romantic things - it's usually a psychological level of understanding and accepting no flimsy hormones. Haven't thought of the elemental stroke to it or did I? - But Thank You Anyway for that.
Well, the psychological need is usually there in my stories I guess - like not only comfort and understanding but a unique quality that transpires between the couple - it could be an epiphany or it could be that time when you admire
What do you think Fyn?
Well, thank you for your exuberant response! I think there are many moments that so often go unnoticed that contain immeasurable possibilities.
Tadpole1  says:Oh Fyn,You brought tears to my eyes with your mother's story. How beautiful!
Now, I know a bit more about your stick. My "stick" is "peas on the floor."~~The Tad
*Hands The Tad a tissue!* Peas on the floor, eh....hmmm...sounds like that needs sharing!
vickierj comments: Wow Fyn! That was a great newsletter. I especially enjoyed the part about the ring on the beach and the baggy filled with sand. You gave us a great example. Thanks for sharing your talent. I will remember this one. 
Thanking you! Tis nice to be remembered or have something one writes strike that chord. *happy, contented smile*
Melissa Murphy--Soon Published adds: Thank you so much for this wonderful letter. It touched me so much more than any newsletter yet. I think the little and yet very important part of you in here is what made the difference. You and your family sound like special people.~~Melissa
Awww...thank you. It is the bits and pieces of ourselves that make our writing honest. And thanking you as well for a great idea for my Drama Newsletter!!!
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