MYTHS OF ROMANTIC LOVE

                                  
1. "forever"
2. foreordained; predestined
"made for each other"
3. "I am you and you are me"; twinning;
see in Symposium 59-65 hermaphrodite
fulfillment only in each other; complete; closure
4. "My life is validated only by your love"
all else is meaningless, rote, routine
5. Property-ownership
"I am your slave"
"I own your love/you" = jealousy
6. "I am possessed by love"
unaccountable to real world; the demon; the god within
how relate this to possession as property
7. "this has never happened before"
the first time on earth; the uniquity of our love

-- Eve Merriam