We just can't wait to get a letter in the mail from the other person when he or she is away. People tell us, we have lost our minds and gone crazy over that person. In junior and senior high school you need a computer to keep up with who is in love with whom on this particular week and sometimes day. We still live in a dream world in which society tells us that this state of falling in love is the natural state for a couple to remain in forever. The ability to be romantically attracted to someone is a gift from God.
Romance is like the fire of a match.
It burns brightly and quickly, but its purpose is to set on fire something else which will last much longer. God gives us romance to burn the fires in a marriage. The purpose of romance is to develop a more deeper understanding of love in the marriage relationship. A love based not simply on feelings but on commitment as well. God created marriage to be a lifetime relationship between two individuals who were committed to each other no matter what the stresses of life might be.