Here it is, The big "WOW," The big "Gee", the big "YESYESYES" you've been waiting for. This is where you find some thing or someoneand believe they are better, greater, cuter, wiser, more wonderful than anything you have ever known.

LUST isn't sin, it's a necessity, for with lust as our guide we imagine our bodies moving the way our bodies were meant to move: We can do marathons with our feet, lift pounds with our arms, have stars in our eyes and do the nifty Tango and you think:
I have no need of food, I have no need of sleep, I have no needs other than to occasionally chew a breath mint. You are the best thing that's ever happened to me...

Phase Two: EUPHORIA
(or: Oh Yipee, you're mine.)

You feel funny inside. You feel funny outside. You feel you could do anything and no one would dare laugh at you.
This love you will treasure. You will not put it in the basement next to your rowing machine, treadmill and thermal body wrap AND you will not take this love for grantedbecause that is the biggest sin of all, and you say..

I feel so strong, I feel beautiful! Oh, let us sing and dance and eat all low fat foods of all kinds. Oh, joy, oh rapture!

Oh, but what if I am no good at this? I am a dingy speck on the wall of humanity. I am becoming very, very afraid. That must be because I am passing into...

Phase Three: FEAR
(Also known as: Uh-Oh.)

This is where the doubt begins, where the mind comes back from shopping, yells at the heart, binds and gags it to a nice lounge chair and allows guilt, failure and remembrances of things past. This is where you fear what you need most.And you begin to think:
Oh, no...What if I'm wrong? What if my heart has blinders on, it's had blinders on before. How can anyone love me if I don't love myself? I mean, I love myself, there are just parts between the top of my head and the bottom of my feet that could use some improvement...antvd you move on to...

Phase Four: DISGUST
(and the same strange desire to eat everything in sight, hide in your room, and watch old tv reruns.)

Now comes that Unavoidable time when you say to anyone who will listen: What the heck am I doing, anyway?

You think, I can't believe I ever said I felt this way, I must have been dreaming! Wait, This is no dream. I mean this is LOVE? This is what they tell you about at eleven and naive? OR, thirty-two and more naive?and you move on to...

Phase Five: THE TRUTH
(Love is hard work, And sometimes, hard work can really hurt.)

Love is a game you learn and if you play you either win, lose, or get rejected before the game is over.
There are no ties..

Maybe you'll lose and learn some great meaningful answer from it all, (Like if it;s too good to be true, it is). It's easy to love something when you don't have to work at it. It's harder when it asks something of you, you just might be too afraid to give.Give it anyway. The heart is the most resilient muscle.It is also the stupidist. So if this love you've found is good to you, hold it, keep it, shout about it. If it isn't it's time to say goodbye or possibly become just very good friends. And on to...

Phase SIX: THE FINALE
(Also known as the big Yipee, or the most important part of this whole phase.)

SOoooo This is LOVE, as demanding and nourishing and strong and wise as it makes you become.
There is something to be gained from commitment. There are rewards for staying when you would rather leave, So...You let love come perch upon your shoulder and you do not turn it away. You embrace it, with every passion in your heart, mind and soul. Just do it....Dance the dance of love in all six phases...

Ginny Brancato (Fificat)