Read a book called Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Yes it is a novel, but it's not your typical romance novel. It's all about how to make love stay.
From page 118
'Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you are going to Juniors Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of it's hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Use the ashes of the burnt hair to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be alright. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.'
And one of my favourite bits on love in general from page 128
'Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as it's accomplice. Instead of vowing to honour and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean security is out of the question. The words 'make' and 'stay' become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.'
Even though this is a novel out of all the books on relationships I have read this is THE best book ever about the nature of love. If it wasn't for my signature I would have left my man over some petty crap many times over, instead we keep working on us realising that love isn't always fun, but it's worth it.
'People are never perfect but love can be. People waste time looking for the perfect lover rather than creating the perfect love' - Princess Leigh-Cheri from Still Life With Woodpecker.