I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.
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Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
Every book should have a romance.
Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.
Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.