It is easy to be in love when you are hiking mountains and eating oysters. It is heroic to be in love when you are changing a bedsheet at 3:00 AM because of an accident. Hollywood, I have a pitch for you. Stop rebooting the superhero franchise. Give me the 80-year mature romance.
There is a trope in modern romance that we are all guilty of chasing: the lightning bolt. The sweeping glance across a crowded room. The frantic, heart-racing beginning. We love the "will they, won’t they" of young love because it is loud, messy, and full of potential. 80 year matures sex
When you see a couple celebrating their 80th anniversary, you aren't looking at two people who were "lucky." You are looking at two people who made a decision 29,200 days in a row to choose the same person. If you are writing your own romantic storyline right now, stop worrying about the meet-cute. It is easy to be in love when
Find the person you want to be bored with. Find the person whose silences sound like music. Find the person who, when they are old and gray and moving slowly, you will still want to race to the mailbox just to beat them there and laugh. Stop rebooting the superhero franchise
Give me the story of , who met in 1944. He was a soldier passing through her village in Italy. She gave him a loaf of bread. He gave her a photograph. They didn't speak the same language. Eighty years later, she still laughs at his bad Italian, and he still looks at her like she is the sunrise.
Start worrying about the "stay-cute."