When the Romantic Bubble Bursts (please share your stories) - The Ark2024-03-28T12:30:02Zhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/forum/topics/when-the-romantic-bubble?groupUrl=hopelessromantics&commentId=2426069%3AComment%3A134011&groupId=2426069%3AGroup%3A62059&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFrom my experience, uncontrol…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2012-02-19:2426069:Comment:1341422012-02-19T15:33:36.482ZThatGirlhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/ThatGirl891
<p>From my experience, uncontrollable natural circumstances have always endeared a person to me more, if they handle it with Grace, Humility and/or a healthy sense of humor. Being caught out in below freezing temps in a dangerous part of town, locked out of a car once, was difficult to endure, but being with a person who's main focus is keeping one "safe", made the whole ordeal bring us closer together. Romance has a way of surviving events like that, if it is carried by the underlying Love for…</p>
<p>From my experience, uncontrollable natural circumstances have always endeared a person to me more, if they handle it with Grace, Humility and/or a healthy sense of humor. Being caught out in below freezing temps in a dangerous part of town, locked out of a car once, was difficult to endure, but being with a person who's main focus is keeping one "safe", made the whole ordeal bring us closer together. Romance has a way of surviving events like that, if it is carried by the underlying Love for one another.</p>
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<p>The forgetting of the wallet happens to every man at least once. Lucas should be grateful to tick that one off his list and glad he was partnered with a lovely girl when it happened.</p> Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Adonai…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2012-02-19:2426069:Comment:1340832012-02-19T08:22:27.263Zelaurenzohttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/elaurenzo
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px;"><br></br>Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Adonais" (selected verses)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">The One remains, the many change and pass;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,…</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px;"><br/>Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Adonais" (selected verses)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">The One remains, the many change and pass;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Stains the white radiance of Eternity,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Until Death tramples it to fragments. - Die,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Follow where all is fled! - Rome's azure sky,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak.</p> And with that, you have just…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2012-02-18:2426069:Comment:1340112012-02-18T20:49:08.064ZJimhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
<p>And with that, you have just joined Keats, Shelley, and the rest of the Romantic poets. Well done!</p>
<p>And with that, you have just joined Keats, Shelley, and the rest of the Romantic poets. Well done!</p> Glitter of Chitta, and patin…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2012-02-18:2426069:Comment:1340702012-02-18T13:57:16.173Zelaurenzohttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/elaurenzo
<p>Glitter of Chitta, and patina of tarnish. The One lives through it all.</p>
<p>Up becomes Down depending on the Point of You.</p>
<p>Loss of sparkle is a deficient ulcer that Suicide could be the option. We don't go there, (something fences off this desolate region so far). Distant memory of a gulp of air between dying dying dying?</p>
<p>This, and this "this".</p>
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<p>Glitter of Chitta, and patina of tarnish. The One lives through it all.</p>
<p>Up becomes Down depending on the Point of You.</p>
<p>Loss of sparkle is a deficient ulcer that Suicide could be the option. We don't go there, (something fences off this desolate region so far). Distant memory of a gulp of air between dying dying dying?</p>
<p>This, and this "this".</p>
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<p> </p> I have an update on the statu…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-15:2426069:Comment:767202010-03-15T04:25:53.257ZJimhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
I have an update on the status of my son's romantic adventure. Yesterday he had a second date with the same girl (and just so you know, these dates are group dates that include other friends), and it went much better. However, he's wondering if he's really chosen the right girl, because although she's nice enough, she's just not very exciting to him. So we'll see what happens. In twelve days, they're going to a school dance, so I'll try to post another update after that.
I have an update on the status of my son's romantic adventure. Yesterday he had a second date with the same girl (and just so you know, these dates are group dates that include other friends), and it went much better. However, he's wondering if he's really chosen the right girl, because although she's nice enough, she's just not very exciting to him. So we'll see what happens. In twelve days, they're going to a school dance, so I'll try to post another update after that. Thanks for sharing that, Ruth…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-13:2426069:Comment:766292010-03-13T20:56:50.417ZJimhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
Thanks for sharing that, Ruth. I feel like I know you a little better now. You were fortunate that a rebound relationship turned out so well (but as you mentioned, the wisdom that you brought with you surely played a part in its success). It seems that as we get older, we have more practical things to consider when embarking on a new relationship than we did in our youth (work, kids, ailing parents, etc.). Not that we can't have serendipitous experiences occasionally, as your story amply…
Thanks for sharing that, Ruth. I feel like I know you a little better now. You were fortunate that a rebound relationship turned out so well (but as you mentioned, the wisdom that you brought with you surely played a part in its success). It seems that as we get older, we have more practical things to consider when embarking on a new relationship than we did in our youth (work, kids, ailing parents, etc.). Not that we can't have serendipitous experiences occasionally, as your story amply illustrates. When David and first met, I w…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-13:2426069:Comment:766172010-03-13T15:11:14.159ZJustAnotherUserNamehttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/JustAnotherUserName
When David and first met, I was very recently separated from my husband (of 22 years) and living in Florida. I came to California to attend a convention. I met David, ditched the convention and we went to Santa Barbara for the rest of the week. HIGHLY out of character for me...I'm such a goody-two-shoes, really!<br />
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It was totally, completely and utterly love at first sight. I knew I was probably rebounding, but didn't care. He was (and still is) amazing in every way. I remember one night I said…
When David and first met, I was very recently separated from my husband (of 22 years) and living in Florida. I came to California to attend a convention. I met David, ditched the convention and we went to Santa Barbara for the rest of the week. HIGHLY out of character for me...I'm such a goody-two-shoes, really!<br />
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It was totally, completely and utterly love at first sight. I knew I was probably rebounding, but didn't care. He was (and still is) amazing in every way. I remember one night I said to him that we should try to hold on as long as possible to this feeling because it would never be as sweet and intense and carefree is it was that week.<br />
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I was right.<br />
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But we've just moved on to other intensities. We got married a year later and will have our 5th anniversary later this year. We have a great, really fun, love, music, and German Shepherd-filled life. My only regret is that my son Joey decided to stay in Florida with his dad. All the parents and step-parents are very friendly and visit each other often (my ex and I stay at each others' homes on our cross-country visits) and we have it all worked out, but I wish I had both kids here with me.<br />
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So the bubble hasn't exactly burst, but it gets a little deflated sometimes as real life intervenes! I will say that the more realistic version of love the second time around has been much more fulfilling--probably because of everything I learned the first time around...! Your story is awesome, Sara,…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-06:2426069:Comment:760882010-03-06T18:40:07.786ZJimhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
Your story is awesome, Sara, not only for its entertainment value, but because it shows the romantic bubble being blown to shreds by a barrage of machine gun fire, as opposed to softly bursting with a tiny "pop". Ironically, what the two of you went through, all those physical and emotional hardships, ended up becoming part of the romantic landscape.
Your story is awesome, Sara, not only for its entertainment value, but because it shows the romantic bubble being blown to shreds by a barrage of machine gun fire, as opposed to softly bursting with a tiny "pop". Ironically, what the two of you went through, all those physical and emotional hardships, ended up becoming part of the romantic landscape. Perfect examples, Christine,…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-06:2426069:Comment:760852010-03-06T17:51:28.897ZJimhttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Jim
Perfect examples, Christine, and they show that the bubble can be popped from "within" and not necessarily from the outside (and not necessarily accidentally, either).
Perfect examples, Christine, and they show that the bubble can be popped from "within" and not necessarily from the outside (and not necessarily accidentally, either). lol this blog was sooo funny,…tag:lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com,2010-03-06:2426069:Comment:760662010-03-06T11:52:29.595ZChristinehttps://lovevideoplayhouse.ning.com/profile/Christine
lol this blog was sooo funny, brought back memories. Many times long ago with different boyfriends I would be been thinking 'we' were so in love and that every second with him was precious and then once when he was about to have to leave for a few weeks and we were going to the pub for our last date for a while, he invited his friend along!!, or another time I was saying how beautiful last night had been and he would say "oh I'm thinking about today now, I don't ever think about yesterday" and…
lol this blog was sooo funny, brought back memories. Many times long ago with different boyfriends I would be been thinking 'we' were so in love and that every second with him was precious and then once when he was about to have to leave for a few weeks and we were going to the pub for our last date for a while, he invited his friend along!!, or another time I was saying how beautiful last night had been and he would say "oh I'm thinking about today now, I don't ever think about yesterday" and other comments that has made me conclude that men just aren't romantic and lost in a love cloud in the way that I am when I'm in love. I've learnt to keep one foot firmly on the ground of reality.<br />
I do love romance though. The best times of my life are when I'm in love.