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But the author has a hard time doing it.
My dad once described me as a hopeless romantic when I said goodbye to a long-term partnership. He suspected that my whole generation listened too much to their hearts. There are other things besides a constant shower of sparks that keep couples together, he said and gave me a book by Swiss relationship therapist Jürg Willi. Better to be romantic than embittered at some point, I thought, I went my own way and never regretted it.
