It's easy to run off at the mouth about love. Especially when sex is involved, words tend to flow with an earnest conviction. Big promises are made. There is an element of theatricality to romance that's impossibly seductive. My instincts are not extroverted ones (though I can be awfully gabby when my defenses are down). I'm usually quiet and speak in mumbling fragments, occasionally punctuated with a dry zinger. But I have been seduced, on more than one occasion, by the lure of the spotlight; imagining myself on stage, engaged in a grand act to symbolize the depth of my feelings for someone.
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