hopeless romantic...
I’ve always known I’m a hopeless romantic, a little bit sappy and extremely passionate but the other night while watching Brothers and Sisters I started to wonder if I wasn’t becoming delusional and slightly insane. One of the storylines was about Sarah; recently back from France, telling her holiday romance story to Kitty while Kitty received chemo treatments. (I know! The drama! Can you believe I watch this stuff? But this isn’t why I thought I was insane.) Sarah’s romance went a little something like this, while she was in the French countryside she gets lost but finds herself at a barn where she hears someone inside and hopes to get directions. She knocks on the barn door and (swoon) Gilles Marini opens the door. He is a chiseled statue of a god with pouty eyes and yummy lips and of course he’s a PAINTER. (Swoon again) This is my fantasy and probably every other woman’s but it’s a good one.
Sarah and Sexy God banter back and forth as in all good “meet cutes” and then their torrid romance continued with white wine picnics and sketching in the grass before kissing endlessly.
Their story was made to look like an old French film, shot in 16mm style with dewy soft lighting and French music playing in the background. It was a romance novel come to life and so much fun to watch in all its glorious cheesiness. (This is when I started to think I might be losing my mind.) I was hooked.
What was my problem? I’ve seen lots of good looking men. I’ve dated lots of good looking me. I’ve watched endless love scenes on TV and film and here I was honestly feeling like a school girl longing for her first kiss. I was charged and turned on and had no idea why. Was it the guy, the romance? What?So today I Googled Gilles Marini to see if there was something about him? As I looked carefully at the photos it dawned on me. He resembles my ex fiancé in the eyes and the mouth. Now don’t get me wrong, the whole package of Gilles is much sexier but MM (AKA ex fiancé) was pretty sexy as well. So Gilles kind of looking like my ex still didn’t account for my heart breaking when his character “cheats” on Sarah by kissing another woman.
I still didn’t know why I was so hooked until I dug a little deeper. My heart needed these characters to be in love and succeed in love. I needed a happy ending because my romance didn’t have one. I’m currently encompassed by my relationship with MM, remembering every detail of how we first met and fell in love because it’s the subject of my book. This is why I am hooked. It is also why I need a man and a woman and a happily ever after. My story had a happy ending but not with a man and a woman walking off into the sunset together.
(Spoiler alert)
You can only imagine my relief when it was revealed that Sarah hadn’t made up the story and the cheating was a lie, the joy that pounced from my heart when Sarah shuffled through the sketches he had actually done of her and then when he knocked on her door and said, “I’m lost,” I bet you can imagine what I did...
I swooned, of course.
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Everybody likes happy endings, though tastes are different.
swoon away my friend, I bet it helps with the book, I still plan on being in the front of the line at your book signing...cant wait;)
peace
Steven, you won't be waiting in any line? Are you kidding me? You'll be at the party, celebrating with me!
Gilles is too beautiful for words. And in real life (another spoiler alert), he's a devoted family man.
What's that woosh I hear? Your fantasy deflating? Or madly refilling?
Awesome post.
Now I do not have anyone in my past that would even slightly resemble Gilles Marini, but he still completely mesmerizes me.;)
Great post and yes Gilles Marini is kind of yummy...What a body!!!
I have never seen or heard of him before until I read your post.
It does seem that Italian men are often very good looking. I saw quite a few Italian artists when I visited Tuscany and they were all very attractive.
Oh well...Long sigh...Gilles is too good looking for his own good!;)
Jo May.
P.S. I'm a romantic at heart too!
Yay! Thanks for setting me straight.
Happy endings are always a happy affair.
P.S.
Thers's a post on a famous photographer in my blog today.
I'd appreciate it if you can go through it.
xx
This kind of man just like many "model" types does not have to work on himself...except in the gym. This is problematic, first in the family if the siblings dont resonate the same beauty, in life as he will learn he is "better' by just the role of the good looking dice and the hardest part is the terriffic looks will have confusing consequences for him and others. Craving attention because that is what he is used to.
It is often the type of man a woman who has the self esteem problem of "not being attractive enough" will chose for herself...just like a short bald man will lust after a tall leggy model. We have tendencies to covet what we might think we are missing inside of us. Really we have these qualities, but for what ever pathological reason do not "feel" we actually have. It is very interesting to start to see why one is attracted to another...the beauty of another is an internal fquest, the obvious attractive people make us work harder to understand the void we feel as above average folks.
But then again I could be bitter....
The man who stalked me for three years looks like this guy, my former husband does too....the narcissim as well defined as his abs.
This is a wound that gets bigger with age.Boys and girls get hard wired by visual and emotional stimuli....if a girl grows up watching soap operas/disney movies,and her fatheror mother never gave her the sense that she was attractve enough...there will be a longing that becomes the unrequited pursuit of prince charming.
Mia
But why is his face a different (deathly) color than "his" body?
If I wasn't into happily ever afters, I would have checked out a long time ago!
Clare x
It's so fun to be swept up in romance, whether it's on the big or small screen, or better yet, in real life.
I don't watch bros and sis, but my my what a yummy picture. Whew.
:-)
(((hugs))),
me
You have a wonderful blog
XX
Bunny
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, Stacey!