Week 23
True Love: Do you think it really exist?
Well now. Interesting topic for this 52-Week Blog Challenge Blog Hop. Do I think true love really exist? Darn right I do. I believe it with all my heart. How do I know? Simple answer. I’ve experienced true love. What kind of romance writer would I be if I didn’t believe true love existed? Songs are sung. Classic and modern-day novels and poems are written about true love.
*This way to my son and daughter-in-laws wedding reception almost two years ago to the date.
How could I create a hero and heroine falling in love on the page and in my head and heart if I didn’t believe it existed? (Yes, in my head and heart.) True love comes in many shapes, sizes, ages, genders, species, but no matter who you love, I don’t only think, but I know true love exists. My heart tells me so.
To this day, my heart still experiences (and pines) for a special true love. The ache in the pit of my belly, the extra beat of my heart, tears behind my eyes, and a knot in the throat—the yearning—at the…memories. Sometimes we don’t realize how true a love is/was until it’s gone.
I see true love when I observe how my youngest son and daughter-in-law look at, speak to each other, and laugh together.
True love, comes in many forms. We can experience a true love with our Lord, a friend, lover, our child/children, or other relative like an aunt or an uncle, sister or brother, grandma or grandpa… Our parents. Our dogs, cats, horses, etc.
Our partners. If the kind of emotion we feel upon experiencing love, isn’t true love, what else would you call it?
Have you ever had a best friend? Did you love the person—truly love them? Mine passed away a little more than two years ago. We were best friends since I was eighteen. I wrote about her in my first Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge post. This kind of true love is a different kind of love than how you love a spouse or partner, but it’s true love, nonetheless.
What about chocolate? Ha-ha. Thought I’d throw that one in to see if you were paying attention.
I could go on and on about this topic. Don’t worry. I won’t. Since I’ve poured my heart out, let’s see what other authors in the Marketing for Romance Writers Group have to say on the topic. Find out HERE. #MFRWauthor
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Happily Ever After Sign: Copyright Mary J. Dressel.
*This sign was also used recently for my #WordlessWednesday post.
Mary J. McCoy-Dressel 
12 thoughts on “#AmWriting True Love? #MFRWauthor #WritersLife”
henhousepublishing
Lovely post. I, too, believe in true love as anyone who believes in God should. I also know that true love isn’t necessarily romantic; it is unconditional and it forgives.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Exactly, Holly! It is “unconditional and it forgives.” So true. ❤
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Cathy Brockman
I agree it comes in many forms. My best friend and I are examples. We’ve been together thick and thin over 20 years. Longer than any of my marriages lol. My children and I. My dad and I and I could go on and on.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
You’ve been with your best friend for a long time too. Cherish each moment. I’ve never had a sister so having a best friend really came in handy.
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Kate Hill (@katehillromance)
I completely agree. True love exists and it’s not only between romantic partners. My best friend passed away when we were in high school. At that time, she was also my writing partner. I still miss her all these years later. Great post!
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Thank you, Kate. I’m sorry you lost your best friend too and at a young age. I know that kind of love.
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Helen Henderson
I definitely agree that if we can’t recognize true love, how can we write about it. Good post.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Thanks, Helen. How could we write about true love if we couldn’t believe in it, was the first thought that came to me. ❤ 🙂
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Ed Hoornaert
Like you, Mary, I’ve experienced true love . . . with my high school sweetheart, who’s still my wife. If I hadn’t experienced it, I doubt I’d be writing romance.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Aw, that’s sweet, Ed. I’m happy for you and your wife, and that you write romance.
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Rhonda Gilmour writing romance as Sadira Stone
At the risk of a bad pun, this was a lovely post.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
No worries about a bad pun. Thanks, Rhonda.
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