"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them"
Love in the Time of Cholera
"..romantic love seems to prove a preparation for parental love. Perhaps the best preparation out there. Where else, after all, but in strong relationships between passionate, caring adults can one learn the sacrifice and courage, empathy and idealism needed to adore and champion a child? Where our culture sees a contradiction, I see continuity. To ardently love an equal partner equips us to ardently love a child. And the other way around also: To dearly love a child prepares us- sometimes for the second (or seventeenth!) time- to better love a partner."
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