From the author: What is our relationship based on? Y-eh!.. about what my idealistic dad periodically told me: - Zhenya, you are a child of love, keep this in mind! Honestly, I didn’t think that my parents particularly loved me. Love and selfishness were split about fifty-fifty. But! Each other - perhaps... once... in youth... But! And this turned out to be quite enough for me to... become saturated with idealism! At the same time, all Balzac's realism speaks to me: - They had an ordinary relationship, with love, with outbursts of kindness, etc. They were afraid to violate social norms and cheat on each other... plus increased disgust, plus increased shyness, etc. But some strange mystic-hoaxer sings to me: - No, what are you talking about! This is love, real, romantic! Eternal! Let one of its foundations be, yes, a banal fear of breaking norms. But! And yet this is Love, and that’s all! What is it really? Childhood? Faith? The desire to retain at least a piece of idealism in yourself?*******What else do I think about when I hear the word “Love”? But the fact that all this explosive mixture of idealism from my dad and mom, not in the least destroyed by my, in general, cold and intellectually intensive realism... also spread to my relationship with my third wife! As I say, “God grant that she would be my last!”... Yes, we swear. Yes, we can be selfish. Yes, she does not stop competing for power, despite the losses. But... Love, and that’s all here! Both hers and mine! And this feeling forces me to simply forgive scandals, show tolerance, agree on mutual values, including in relation to my son. Perhaps this feeling allowed me not to kill her when she was particularly arguing and trying to blow my mind, a psychologist (!) for some complete nonsense... Perhaps, thanks to this feeling, both me, her, and my son are lucky in life. It is quite possible that I will die with this feeling, and will enjoy it in other worlds and dimensions... if, of course, they yes...*******Don't agree with the author's opinion? Give your arguments, perhaps the truth will emerge in our dispute. Was my article useful to you? Feel free to thank with likes. Love and prosperity to everyone who wishes it!