“Always prudence, duty and honor. Where is your heart?” A beautiful quote from Austen’s Sense and Sensibility conveys a character’s distress of being bound by her silence and social class. Obviously times have changed where we are no longer defined by what the status of a woman should be, but are the lines really that blurred? We are still silenced, but it’s now just frowned upon or mistaken as submissiveness. We are not entirely devoid of strong, boisterous women among our society my mind is lead to those who are meek on the outside shouting their indignation from the inside. This isn’t a women’s empowerment blog or a “woe is me” type of message I am simply expressing my opinion on this specific quote I love so much. I was talking with a friend recently on the different duties men and women play in relationships and I was enlightened on the fact that what she was saying is so true. Men are programmed to fix things, make it better in simple easy steps. A black and white outcome. Must be right or wrong. Women on the other hand take time, exhaust all their efforts before a problem is fixed. We are also much stronger, not in the physical sense, but emotionally we are programmed to handle much strife with honor and duty. Our men are there to be the reason and truth in the relationship, where we bring forth compassion and heart. You can not have one with out the other. Men give us the chance to be passionate, emotional, and completely unrealistic at times. Give us a voice. After all of this, show us ardent romance. Be creative, ingenuity not money is the pathway to our heart. Make us feel wanted, accepted, and most of all pursued. Passion should never die in a relationship. Of course these insipid thoughts are coming from a feminist romantic, so I could be wrong. At any rate this is what makes my heart beat faster…romance.

AJ