Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.
Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.
The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
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