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"Love isn't  an act, it's a whole life. 

It's staying with her now because 

she needs you; it's knowing you 

and she will still care about each other when

sex and daydreams, fights and futures--

when all that's on the shelf and done with.

Love--why, I'll tell you what love is:

it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one,

each of you listening for the other's 

step in the next room,  each afraid that a 

sudden silence, a sudden cry,

could mean a lifetime's talk is over.

-Brian Moore

Yes. It is possible for a man to be just as passionate, just as lovely, just as meaningful, beautifully romantic, and in love with his girlfriend...his wife.