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When we dream about a soulmate we can harm our real relationship.

It is up to you to find your partner interesting, even after all these years.

Disconnecting from idealized fantasy helps cherish real partners' imperfections.

My Aunt Hazel loved herself a good bodice-ripper romance novel. I remember as a child finding—okay, searching for—the dog-eared paperbacks under her bed. Each cover showed a hunky man with flowing hair and a sexy ingénue with fire in her eyes, clasped in a passionate embrace.

Of course, despite their many obstacles and between surprisingly explicit bouts of perfect sex—and without any dose of reality whatsoever—the two always lived happily ever after. Unfortunately, Aunt Hazel lived and died, never having tasted the forbidden fruits she gobbled up in the pages of her fantasies.

Don’t let this happen to you.

Burn Your Romance Novels

As you will see in this video, I want you to burn your romance novels and focus on your real-life romance.

Look, those of us in romantic relationships long for fulfillment, happiness, and passion. We want to feel crazy in love both in and out of bed.........

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