I Feel Love!

By: Marcia King-Gamble

www.lovemarcia.com

Ah, the month of February and love is in the air.  it's a month that promises hearts, red roses, and delectable chocolates, A month when so many not "coupled" feel alone.  

Time to contemplate the age old question  What is love and does true love even exist?

This probably sounds like an odd question coming from a romance writer. It’s also a question that’s  been debated over the years.  So let's talk about it. What exactly  is love?

Is it as poet Robert Burns said?

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve is like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune…

 

Or is it as William Shakespeare penned?

 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines…

 

Is it as Donna Sommers said … Love to Love you baby?

Ahaaw, I love to love you, baby

Ahaaw, I love to love you, baby,

When you're laying so close to me. There's no place I'd rather you be than with me…

 Or is it as Luther Ingram said?

If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right

If being right means being without you

I'd rather live a wrong doing life

 Maybe LL Cool J nailed it  when he rapped “I need Love.”

When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall

And in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call

Telling me I need a girl who's as sweet as a dove

For the first time in my life, I see I need love

I  need love (love, love, love, love...)

I  need love

I  need love

 For better or for worse, here is my take on love. While warm, fuzzy feelings may be the start of the initial attraction, followed by the usual flutterings down south, true love starts as a friendship and then blooms into something magnificent. It’s at times an inexplicable connection between two people.   It’s having a person in your life who watches your back. It’s an exchange of understanding without one word being said.

 Contrary to popular belief it’s not necessarily two people having the same things in common. Opposites do attract and two dissimilar personalities can come together to learn different things from each other and together they make  a whole.  

 In the world of  romance writing, without conflict there is no story. By conflict we don’t mean our hero and heroine live in a world of screaming and shouting. They may be diametrically opposed in their thinking or even their goals, but their journey takes them to a place  of growth and mutual respect and that becomes a key part of their romantic journey.

 Yes, over time, jittery feelings may have dissipated, but in the words of Jerry Maguire, the feeling of “you complete me,” remain. True love  means finding a human being who complements you and makes you feel whole. 

 I don’t have a Valentine’s novella released this year,  last years By Heart is still available. https://www.amazon.com/Heart-H-Caldwells-Book-ebook/dp/B08CRC78W1/ref

It’s a tale of Cyndy Lawsen who hated even the thought of Valentine’s Day, yet through happenstance, met her true love at that time of year. 

Another Valentine's release was Ring in the Moment, https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Moment-Book-2-ebook/dp/B07W47S297/ref a tale of love found during the month of February.

  Romance is definitely in the air and love often finds us when we least expect it, 

Have a Happy Valentine’s Day! Show love by doing small things. But more importantly remember to be kind.

Coming  this February I am rereleasing This Way Home. Here's what  the old cover looked like and here's a preview of the new one (the woman with legs.)

 About Marcia King-Gamble

Romance writer, Marcia King-Gamble originally hails from a sunny Caribbean island where the sky and ocean are the same mesmerizing shade of blue. This travel industry executive and current world traveler has spent most of life in the United States. A National Bestselling author, Marcia has penned over 34 books and 8 novellas. Her free time is spent at the gym, traveling to exotic locales, and caring for her animal family.

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