The Trouble With Fulfilling Your Ambitions Is

When You Have Children It Completely Shifts Your Focus; They Become The Most Passionate Love Of Your Life...

Love Itself Is What Is Left Over When Being "in Love" Has Burned Away, And This Is Both An Art And A Fortunate Accident.

So The News That Divorced Fathers Are To Be Denied A Legal Right To A Relationship With Their Children, In The Long Overdue Review Of Family Law Published This Week, Fills Me With Horror And Despair.

It's Stupid To Claim That One Human Being Is Special, Or Picked Out By God, When In Fact There Are Hundreds Of Millions Of Human Beings In The World, And God Knows How Many Millions Of People Long Dead Who Have Been Lost To History, All Of Whom Were Probably Special To Someone.

Love Is Not Breathlessness; It Is Not Excitement; It Is Not The Promulgation Of Promises Of Eternal Passion. That Is Just Being “in Love”, Which Any Of Us Can Convince Ourselves We Are. Love Itself Is What Is Left Over When Being In Love Has Burned Away, And This Is Both An Art And A Fortunate Accident.