Does anyone feel that inner craving for love, for passion ? I keep watching romantic love films as a way of satisfying that inner need of ..feeling love, of feeling that intense emotion when two people lose themselves completely in each other.
I wonder whether the love stories feed the need or satisfy the need?
I have always been a romantic and to some extent always needed the belief of love to feed my soul! I find that now I hide that side, or I show that side when I am alone with the films. That makes me so sad, so empty.
I …read more

Gloria, an avid reader to the blog, emailed me a tip for you all. She said
“I am a long time reader, long time no commenter on the blog. I wanted to thank you for the blog but also all the people who leave comments, I cannot tell you how much they have helped over the months. I thought I would share a thought with you, if you think it would help others then please share. But when I lost my husband I really missed the feeling of a human being. We were never the romantic types and yet I missed …read more

Mum showed me a box that she found whilst clearing out her loft. The box contained all the notes that Dad had written her whilst they were “courting”. They were even more special because Dad was dyslexic and the writing was poor and very hard to understand.
There was even the receipts of gifts that he had sent mum. One was for an emerald ring that he had hidden inside a pickled onion jar, with a note attached saying…”Just like you, I have a heart of gold”
Dad wasn’t the most obviously romantic person, yet the letters showed the undying love he …read more