In the World According to Disney and Sappy Romance Novels
In the world according to Walt Disney fairy tales and sappy romance novels, love everlasting is based on whirlwind romances and that funny feeling.
I have decided that in real life it is about finding somebody who can put up with your crap. And whose crap you can tolerate in return. Somebody who you can be just so over and like again tomorrow.
If I had figured that out when I was twelve it would have positively driven my mother over the edge. As it was, she was introducing me as her daughter Christine, age twelve, going on thirty. That kind of early onset cynicism would have been way too much. Better for my mother that I kept a copy of The Twelve Dancing Princesses under my bed.
I later graduated to Top Gun who I dated and A Few Good Men who I married. (Think Kiefer Sutherland, not Tom Cruise.) And divorced.
Twice.
I can be a slow learner.
I blame it on Disney. And my mother.
There are a lot of subliminal messages in Disney films that you wouldn’t notice unless they’d been pointed out to you.
You should check them out on youtube.