Older
romance heroines…
“Do they lose
the desire to be wooed, to be seduced?
Can they be
part of a significant romance story?”
Hello Friends,
This week it’s my pleasure to welcome Australian author, D.D. Line
back to the blogger site. D.D. joins us today with a guest post about love and
growing older, and passion taking on another meaning.
Guest Blog with D.D.
The ability to fall in love can happen at any stage of life. Yes,
there’s a different intensity, a different focus of passion and need, but those
fluttery moments where you’ve swallowed a thousand tapdancing butterflies, and
your speech turns to incoherent babble never fade.
In our teens, we feel love and romance so deeply. We might fall in
and out of love every other day of the week, but our current crush means the
world to us. They are our hopes, our dreams, our everything. And when said
crush rejects us, or worse, has no idea we even exist, the devastation is real
– until the next crush comes along.
As we mature, so do our ideals of love. We fall just as intensely,
just as hopefully, but love becomes about our significant other and the
relationship itself, not just self-love. Mother Nature has a helping hand in
this. At a basic level, physical passion and love can lead to procreation, and
the intensifying of love between partners as they love, nurture, and protect
their family. To build a life with someone who loves us as much as we love them
is a level of happiness many wish to obtain.
And after the children grow and begin lives (and romances) of
their own, a different form of love evolves. Tenderness, caring, the dreams of
growing old together, and learning about each other all over again. They can
also send our hearts fluttering all over again too. We never lose that desire
to be wooed, to be seduced, to be desired, even if that passion takes on
another meaning over the years.
Yes, as we mature, we love to vanish into the unfolding romance of
a younger woman and remember the passion we felt when we were a similar age. Some
of us may cringe when we remember the crushes of our teens, and some of us
smile fondly when we recall that first one-sided romance. But there are those
who want to read about characters our age, to prove to ourselves and others
that characters in their forties, sixties, and beyond can have those magical
moments we had in our teens and as young women. We still want to be swept off
our feet, (perhaps with a gentler touch) and we want to feel loved, desired,
and part of a significant romance story. We want to read about characters who reflect
our changing emotions, needs, and lifestyles. We want to know that romance
endures.
The romances of characters in their twenties and thirties will always
be popular, and there will always be readers of all ages wishing to devour
these romances, myself included. But isn’t it about time the more mature
romances had a place too?
You can read more posts, book reviews and writer news from D.D. Line
over at her blogger site. Here’s the link; D.D. Line Author Blogspot
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Christmas is coming,
wishing you a happy weekend.
♥Ashlyn
Read a Short Romance Story
written by D.D. Line
ONE NIGHT ONLY
“One
Night Only” is a contemporary romance about the morning after a night of
seduction, and a sapphire’s good luck. The heroine, Emma has a hard time
leaving David—Mr. Sexy Man, but it’s fun to read about her escape, aka sort of
‘walk of shame’…
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
