Love is the wild card of existence.
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.