Eros is that dimension of human loving born of desire, need, hunger, and yearning. It is full-bodied and sensuous. Eros is, as Paul Tillich frequently said, the moving power of life. Michael and Bob obviously have a splendidly erotic relationship genitally sexual, to be sure, and much more it is a full-bodied, playful, sensuous, loving eroticism evident in these pages. I found here a realistically hopeful book.
Fantasies take no effort, but real relationships take work.
Committed love takes work if it is to grow, change, adapt, and remain fresh. This couple knows that well. And their commitment to steady relational effort seems based on a confidence there is something greater than our human effort alone involved in love s work. There is reason both in the couple s own steady attention to their relationship and beyond them for hope. Such is the mystery of love.