Romance, or romantic love, covers a related set of ideas: the passionate feeling of attraction and focused attention toward a particular person that marks being in love, the cultural practice of pursuing intimate relationships for such feelings over practical concerns, a relationship sustained on that basis, and a love story built around these elements. Psychology treats romantic love as a motivation or drive distinct from, but related to, attachment. Writers on the subject note the term carries multiple and sometimes contradictory meanings, and the idea of romantic love has also come to stand for individual choice in selecting a marriage or sexual partner, a choice realized only imperfectly and capable of bringing both satisfaction and disappointment. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Romance and romantic love encompass a number of ideas about love, which are interrelated for historical and cultural reasons: passionate feelings of attraction-a mental state of "being in love", with focused attention (salience) towards a specific individual for courtship or pair bonding; the cultural practice or idealization of initiating intimate relationships for feelings like these
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