In fiction, I like it when characters who seemed so set in their ways at the start of the tale have changed (but not in a beyond-all-recognition way because that would be creepy) by the end because they want to, in order to make space in their lives where the other person feels comfortable. Like in How the Other Half Lives. I loved the way Martin & Russ were influenced by each other to change, but were still recognisably themselves by the end - and, I'm sure, they both still did things that wound the other one up no end!
In real life, I always say I knew the chap who's now my husband was my kind of person when he drove from Birmingham to London via Sheffield in order to see me :-) More recently, he bought me roses for my birthday a couple of years ago - 5 different varieties, in pots, for me to plant in the garden :-D Back when he was trying to get me properly interested in the garden he bought me a packet of "Big Smile" sunflower seeds, and told me that he'd seen them & thought of me :-) I think that's about as close as we get to romance...
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Date: 2011-10-22 08:01 am (UTC)In fiction, I like it when characters who seemed so set in their ways at the start of the tale have changed (but not in a beyond-all-recognition way because that would be creepy) by the end because they want to, in order to make space in their lives where the other person feels comfortable. Like in How the Other Half Lives. I loved the way Martin & Russ were influenced by each other to change, but were still recognisably themselves by the end - and, I'm sure, they both still did things that wound the other one up no end!
In real life, I always say I knew the chap who's now my husband was my kind of person when he drove from Birmingham to London via Sheffield in order to see me :-) More recently, he bought me roses for my birthday a couple of years ago - 5 different varieties, in pots, for me to plant in the garden :-D Back when he was trying to get me properly interested in the garden he bought me a packet of "Big Smile" sunflower seeds, and told me that he'd seen them & thought of me :-) I think that's about as close as we get to romance...