More on romantic desire

Since singleness occasionally gets a post around here (ever since writing the posts for the EQUIP book club book on singleness I feel like I somewhat reluctantly became a 'singleness person') I thought the link buried on the bottom of the last post might deserve one of it's own. It's a response by John Piper to the question How can I long to be married without obssessing about it? and then today I read this post by Wendy called Confessions of a (former) romance novel addict, which relates. I must say, I haven't read a book in the "romance" category in a long time, I haven't gone anywhere near Twilight (I'm just seriously disinterested in vampires and all of it) and my poison comes more in the form of "classics", "poetry" or books that bury romance in some other guise, but the last paragraph of that post is worth a read even so.