OSCAR WILDE

Youngsters are now wary of a life-long relationship and consider it as an option.

• One-third of people who are in their twenties may never marry.
• The increase of freedom to romance has changed the definition of romance.

• Romanticism tells us that a long-term marriage can have all the excitement of a love affair.
• Romanticism proposed that true love must mean an end to all loneliness.
• Romanticism believed that choosing a partner should be about letting oneself be guided by feelings, rather than...

It is no particular accomplishment to love someone who is on their best behavior.

What is needed for our attention is the love of what is crooked, damaged, and self-disgusted. Here love is the effort required to imagine oneself into the life of another person who has not m...