Guilty as charged - I "stole" this question from someones blog. My motives were honourable because I would love to hear your views.
With time, does our romantic heart, like our arteries, simply harden?
Makes you think - doesn't it?
-
-
happy28
Pro - 2009-03-22 @ 18:36:52
-
-
-
rithompson
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rithompson/
- 2009-03-22 @ 18:50:38
When your heart's been shattered and you know Len Cohen songs off the top of your head.
-
-
-
SeasideMan
Pro - 2009-03-22 @ 18:52:32
I don't wish to be awkward here, but it does rather depend on what you mean by "romantic". If it means loving someone, I'd hope that wouldn't fade over time and if it means caring for someone and occasionally pleasantly surprising them then I'd hope that wouldn't fade either. If it means offering to drink their bath water, I'd say that probably would fade over time.
Tom.-
'offering to drink their bath water'
on what level is that romantic? And if it is romantic then maybe I'll live without it!
-
-
SeasideMan
Pro
- 2009-03-22 @ 20:51:14
:-)
-
-
-
-
-
Usksider
Pro - http://www.usksider.co.uk
- 2009-03-22 @ 19:10:17
Nope... romance is alive and well and long may it continue
-
-
-
rubychoo
- 2009-03-22 @ 19:43:18
It's like the difference between a young Caerphilly and and an aged Parmesan...
It's still cheese...
But one is much better at it...
-
-
-
ravingmad
- 2009-03-22 @ 21:52:56
If a couple are well suited then love never dies. Young lust may mellow, but the trust and devotion will deepen over the years, and in doing so will more than compensate for the gradual decline in young hormonal passion.
-
-
-
boredrich
- 2009-03-22 @ 22:17:17
I dont believe it ever does even after we are all long gone the romance and the love that flows from it will always survive be it with us or whatever is beyond
-
-
-
MonkeyPie
- 2009-03-22 @ 22:19:12
Yeah- but only to a point. It stops being so malleable that it moulds itself to any old boy who comes along and the slightly plasticated sides become more discerning as to who'll they'll beat for. I'd like to think it remains a little soft and tender and never gets wholly stone-hard..
-
-
-
I_Am_Xenon
Pro - 2009-03-22 @ 22:21:13
I am unable to answer this question, as I do not have a romantic heart, nor have I ever had one in the past.
-
-
I think it goes from a raging fire to a slow burn.. But never dies out completly.
-
It doesn't harden it just sharpens and becomes more focused (I hope)- unlike our eyes and ears!
Just look at grandparents and their grandchildren -
-
joebangles
- 2009-03-23 @ 14:46:52
It does happen, the romance dissapears for a while, somewhere about the time that the third child is born, but it returns about 18 years later, or sooner if you can get rid of them all, but whatever, before the arteries harden.
-
that's clever rubychoo 
oh, i hope not. that sounnds soo negative. i know in some ways I have been less appreciative of hubby over the years, but in other ways i love him more.
i'd like to think that in 50 years time we still take the mick out of each other, cuddle and tell each other we love the other.
I guess you're idea of what counts as romance may change as time progresses - i think the most romantic thing my hubby did was propose to me out of the blue, but he still does things which are romantic now (the trip to DC, bringing me out a pillow if I'm sleeping on the sofa, ironing my blouse whilst he does his).
interesting though.
hope you and family are well
x