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If you look up the word 'romantic' in the dictionary you would see my picture! I am reading a nonfiction book--will review it when I am finished--and was caught up short near the beginning.

Let
me set the scene--a couple who were beginning  for what would turn out
to be a 54, and still counting, year relationship found a country home
which they bought. The first evening they spent there they slept in
separate bedrooms and, if I remember correctly, on the floor. This is a
place they were looking for that would be their first home, not 'yours',
not 'mine' but "Ours"!

I
can't fathom people in love, under these circumstances, not spending
their first night together holding each other and sharing what has to be
an exciting experience. I am about half way through the book and I
don't know if they have slept in separate bedrooms all their years
together because so far there isn't another mention of their sleeping
arrangements.

I
don't care if you have been together 6 months or 60 years, whether you
sleep together or in separate beds/bedrooms now but I am interested what
you would have done, maybe did, under the same circumstances.

By the way there wasn't anything keeping them from sleeping together.

Hey, maybe that's why I wasn't in a 54 years relationship--I slept with my partners!!

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"Silence

is one of the

greatest arts of

conversation."

Cicero

(From Maria's Cards)