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The foregoing remarks seem almost to rule out romantic love as an essential of happy marriage. This is far from being the case, however. Romance is essential to happiness, but in order to avoid defeating itself and turning happiness into bored disillusionment, it must be mature and intelligent, knowing what it can expect, and not infantilely demanding the impossible. In fact, now that we have some notion of the nature of romantic feelings, we are in a better position to preserve and enrich them. And we need not fear that too much knowledge will destroy the freshness and...