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Found this over at the SB blog and it’s got me so irritated, it’s unreal.<\/p>\n

But the one genre I never, ever touched was romance.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t bring myself to sample the \u201cjunk food\u201d of the literary world.\u00a0 That was, until my husband deployed last October.\u00a0 And now I am hooked.\u00a0 Oh the shame!\u00a0 I am so desperate for romance and happy endings that I fork over good money to read about fictional characters \u201cgetting off.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do I know I\u2019m an addict?\u00a0 Well, yesterday I dropped $100 on Nora Roberts\u2019 books and some other \u201cchick lit\u201d books I found on sale.\u00a0 The call of the \u201cBUY 4, GET THE 5TH FREE\u201d sign was too great a temptation to resist, and I was scooping paperbacks with cheesy illustrated covers into my basket like a crackhead going after dime bags.<\/p>\n

Like a corner junkie picking cigarette butts off the concrete, I found myself crouched down in the aisle at Borders.\u00a0 I hoped that no one would see me as I randomly picked books off the shelves, quickly assessed their rush-giving potential and either tossed them in my basket or back on the shelf.\u00a0 I probably looked guilty as hell, and ashamed too.\u00a0 Every time someone walked by the romance section I\u2019d either duck or pretend to be looking at the books on tape.\u00a0 I even bought \u201cbooks to cover the fact that I\u2019m buying naughty books\u201d books.<\/p>\n

I doubt I fooled anyone.\u00a0 I definitely wasn\u2019t fooling myself.\u00a0 I remember swearing that I\u2019d never become one of \u201cthose women.\u201d\u00a0 Egads, I\u2019m now one of \u201cthose women\u201d who own more trashy, paperback bodice-rippers than classics.<\/p>\n

Anyone know how to break this habit before hubby comes back?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay…so you’re reading books about two people (or more) falling in love, overcoming obstacles, having sex, having fights, having kids, getting married, getting divored, finding a job, finding love, fighting evil…and this is BAD?<\/p>\n

Straight up-a romance deals with two people finding each other.\u00a0 Falling in love. Overcoming obstacles.\u00a0 Living happily ever after.\u00a0 That’s what many women want in life.\u00a0 That’s what a lot of guys want.\u00a0 Romances are about LIFE.<\/p>\n

But reading them is some sort of guilty secret?<\/p>\n

Um…no.\u00a0 If there’s something that would embarass me if others saw me reading it…here’s the thing…I just wouldn’t read it<\/em>.\u00a0 SHAME alludes to wrong doing.<\/p>\n

There’s not a damn thing wrong with romance.\u00a0 There’s not a damn thing wrong with sex.\u00a0 Both of them are part of LIFE…reading a romance is no more shameful than watching a comedy at the theater.\u00a0 It’s a bit of a break away from life, it’s a few minutes where you’re not cooking, doing laundry, running errands, doing whatever you do in your day job.<\/p>\n

Geez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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