The passionate attaction between man and woman that is known as romantic love can generate the most profound ecstasy .It can also generate ,when frustrated ,unutterable suffering .Yet for all its intersity ,the nature of that attachment is little understood .To some ,who associate "romantic" with "irrational," romantic love is a temporary neurosis ,an emotional storm ,inevitably short-lived ,which leaves disillusionment and disenchantment in its wake .To others ,romantic love is an ideal that ,if never reached ,leaves one feeling as though one has somehow missed the secret of life .
Extracted from the book ,
The Psychology of Romantic Love
by Nathaniel Branden
