CAN ROMANTIC LOVE LAST? I must confess: I am a creature of the honeymoon phase. For me, romance is most alive when we are inside a fever dream, what Ernest Becker calls “a cosmology of two”. This exalted love stage has a quality of timelessness and eternity, yet it can be hard for many to sustain. Micro aggression becomes passive aggression, wholeness becomes fractured. Resentment and disappointment often ensue. We can get stuck in these unhealthy patterns, working a co-dependency with someone w