by Judith Viorst
Originally appeared in Redbook (February '75)
copyright @1975 by the Redbook Publishing Co.
WHAT IS much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. But not if he doesn't love you back.
What is the difference between infatuation and love?
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Connors. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
The advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again. To my friend Jonathan the Jock, it's easier to love a woman more than life itself than to love her enough to turn off the Super Bowl.
Love is when it's 10 p.m. and you get this gnawing need for peach ice cream, and even though you're not sick or pregnant, he drives to a drugstore and buys you some. Note:If he then goes around telling people about it, deduct 20 points.
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying, "I love you." When someone's saying "I love you," he always ought to give a lot of details
Why does he love you? How much does he love you? When and where did he first begin to love you? Favourable comparisons with all the other women he ever loved also are welcome, and even though he insists it would take forever to count the ways in which he loves you, you wouldn't want to discourage him from counting.
Love is agreeing with him completely when he needs you to agree with him completely, and telling him the plain, unvarnished truth when he needs you to tell him the plain, unvarnished truth, and knowing when he needs which.
Love means never having to say you're sorry. Except when it's your fault. Or when it's his fault but he's too immature to admit it. Or when it's the children's fault but he's holding you responsible. Or when it's nobody's fault but he's looking for a scapegoat. Or when...
(According to my friend Ada The Anthropologist, love is a great improvement over other forms of warfare.)
Love is what makes a person who is philosophically opposed to monogamous sexual relationships on the grounds that jealousy and possessiveness between women and men are not intrinsic to human nature but simply the outmoded by-products of a decadent capitalistic system take it all back.
How do you distinguish love from like?
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. And more romantic. And also more annoyed when he talks with his mouth full. And you also resent it more when he interrupts you. And you also respect him less when he shows any weakness. And furthermore, when you ask him to pick you up at the airport and he tells you that he can't do it because he's busy, it's only when you love him that you hate him.
Roses are red/Violets are blue/Sugar is sweet/And so are you/because you once said that you would rather go through life drinking diet cola with me than Dom Perignon with Jaqueline Onassis/Are you.(#)
ARTICLE No. 1
THE BIBLE'S TIMELESS--AND TIMELY--INSIGHTS by Blanton
ARTICLE No. 2
A SIMPLE SHORTCUT TO SET YOU FREE by Davis
ARTICLE No. 3
DIARY OF A NEW MOTHER by Geissler
ARTICLE No. 4
THE REMARKABLE SELF-HEALING POWER OF THE MIND by Hunt
ARTICLE No. 5
OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE BEAUTY AROUND YOU by Rau
No. 7:THE SECRET OF HAVING FUN by LeShan
No. 8:PIED PIPER OF SEVENTH AVENUE by Comer
No. 9:OBEY THAT IMPULSE by Marston
No. 10:THE LOVING MESSAGE IN A TOUCH by Lobsenz
And some more...
No. 11:THE WISDOM OF TEARS by Hunt
No. 12:HAVE YOU AN EDUCATED HEART? by Burgess
No. 13:THE STRANGE POWERS OF INTUITION by Lagemann
No. 14:WHY KIDS ARE 20 DEGREES COOLER by Mills
No. 15:THE RIGHT DIET FOR YOU by Stare
And still some more...
No. 16:STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT THE LIVING-TOGETHER ARRANGEMENT by Montague
No. 17:...The ABC's of It by Lakein
No. 18:The Day We Flew the Kites by Fowler
No. 19:"Touched by Something Divine" by Selzer
No. 20:How to Live 365 Days a Year by Schindler
Ascend to Second Floor
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