When was the last time you spoke on the phone with your date/lover/spouse/significant other and felt a sexual arousal? If the answer is today or yesterday, you are blessed with passionate love. This is probably the most powerful love whose equivalent would be near that of addictive drugs.

Yes,people fight, steal and kill over passionate love.

The main point of this post is to understand that passion may be beyond compare and fleeting.

There are those who would argue that romantic love, love of children (not in the perverted sense, you pervert), love of friends and family and the love that comes from years of feeling comfortable with your partner is even better. In some ways it is better, mainly because it lasts and it’s spiritual, but can it really compare to the passion of the soul, the heat of the night, the carnal union that ranks with the other desires meant to keep us as a species alive and flourishing? I think not.

A big reason romantic love grows is because it is comfortable to know someone else on many levels as one know ones self. Another big reason is because hormones (the driving force of passion) diminish and romantic love comes in to fill the void. But is romantic love a replacement for passion? It is the unequal decline of hormonal balance among mates that sees some longing for passion while others let it fade, and in reality no longer need it.

The whole point of this topic is that one may never find the one to light said "fire," one may find this passion only to see it fade, as just might be the fate of something so hot that it can’t last forever. One may find passion and allow it to be substituted by romantic love and one may find passion and figure out how to keep it alive as an eternal light and bond to the soul of romantic love.

This is all very heavy stuff to contemplate, but one must give it some thought, for it, or the lack thereof is the cause of much frustration and ultimate dissolution of relationships by one or the other looking for hot, hot, hot while the other is not!

There are certain cliches that have merit: The honeymoon is over or the mere concept and mention of the honeymoon stage tells us that passion is not forever.