Ah! True love, and the romantics who pursue it. Silly boy. True love is bought and paid for in the caldron of life by making sometimes painful decisions to remain true to your word and your mate. Keeping your zipper up helps but keeping your mind zippered against the vagaries of sentiment is primary.
The ability to keep one’s vows is a fundamental test of chracter and principle. The failure to do so is not ennobling and it is not romantic.
True love, indeed.
I didn’t say anything about love, apparently that belond the other woman, in Mark Sanford’s case, however he needs to keep his word to his wife and God. <Period!
Here’s the wrinkle - romantic love isn’t an emotion. Emotion is part of it, but it’s not an emotion in itself.
A lot of folks think that romantic love is an emotion. That’s a huge mistake, assuring problems.