Friendship, not love is the magic ingredient.
Thanks to misplaced notions of romance spread by poets, authors, television and movies, many a potentially great bond between a man and a woman have been destroyed. Love is widely considered as the magic ingredient that is supposed to make people desire one another for lifetimes. In reality this is not true. Love is not a goal nor an end in itself but an ingredient of an ingredient in life and living. It is friendship, not love that is the magic ingredient in a successful or