'I think it's important for me to maintain a distinct sense of dissatisfaction with whatever I do, otherwise why would I ever need or want to do anything else?'
Romantic Love, by contrast, is an episodic, usually short- lived, and often scorchingly vivid turbulence in our emotional histories.
Anyone who claims to fall in love frequently is deemed irresponsible, and with some justification: for it is such a time- consuming, exhausting, ecstatic, painful, transforming business that it requires a long recovery- in some cases, indeed, whole lifetimes.
Romantic love was a distraction, and too much of it was regarded as weakness.