Have you ever noticed that everyone loves a good love story? Since you are visiting this blog I’m guessing you do love romance just as I do. Falling in love has a rush associated with it that nothing else compares with. I don’t know about you but I read and write romance because I get a little jolt every time the couple on the page gets together. Every time they realize they love each other and want to make a life together.
Recenlty my faith in happily-ever-after was tested. My marriage of 17 years broke up under some really nasty circumstances. I have a good friend, actually one of my best-friends, who also found her marriage of 12 years crumbling and we find ourselves two romance writers wondering what the heck happened? How did happily-ever-after go so wrong.
Yet we both still believe in the power of love and that happily-ever-after does exist. I see it every day in the people around me. The couple across the street who are so cute in the way they talk to each other and joke with each other and always love each other. My parents who have been together forever and still love each other.
I see it this new man in my life who has made me believe that sometimes Mr. Right is right there beside you all along. And in my friend’s new man who is showing her that love should always be an adventure.
So what about you? How do you look at love and happily-ever-after? Is it a myth or can it be found?
Katherine 
True love can be found. You just have to keep believing even after something goes wrong with a marriage.
Its hard to deal with the break-up of a marriage after all that time. And sometimes it is even harder not to be bitter. I have found that we spend quite a bit of time with Mr. Wrong…trying to make him Mr. Right. And that will never happen!
But I love this quote from Erica Jong and share it frequently!
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.”
I still believe in the HEA.
Hugs!
Angie
I believe we all have an HEA. True love will find us when we least exspect it.