The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Romantic love is painful.

Romantic love is an addiction.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

¿Llegará el día en que sea capaz de sacármela de la cabeza? Incluso ahora que la situación en los dominios se complica, que Matheo se puso en contacto con nosotros para darnos más malas noticias, y que siento que cómo el espíritu de Arématis va cobrando fuerza, sigo sin poder eliminar a Nessa de mis pasamientos.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.