Why Yearning Is More Powerful Than Instant Romance

Hello, dear readers,

Recently, someone asked me what makes me stop reading a book and put it down completely. And honestly, even I was surprised by my answer.

Instant romance.

Yes, I probably have the opposite problem. I take too many pages to develop relationships and sometimes make my romances painfully slow. But rushed love feels so unrealistic to me that it immediately pulls me out of the story.

The last time I read a romance subplot like that, the characters had barely exchanged more than a few words about the weather and their names before they were suddenly ready to die for each other, fight for each other, and act like they couldn’t possibly survive apart.

And the problem isn’t just that it feels unrealistic. The problem is that it isn’t interesting.

They are together simply because the story needs romance, not because there is actually something connecting them. There’s no chemistry. No tension. No conversations, lingering looks, small moments, or shared understanding that makes you believe these people are truly falling in love.

That’s exactly why I love yearning so much. Because it’s slow.Because it hurts.Because it feels real.

You can feel the chemistry between the characters. You can feel the impossibility of them being together. You feel that electricity even in the smallest moments, when their shoulders brush against each other, when their eyes linger a second too long, when there are so many unspoken feelings between them that the air itself starts to feel heavy.

And that’s exactly why I wrote my book this way.

I wanted the romance to be slow. I wanted it to be so sweet it almost hurts.

I wanted readers to feel the exact moment attraction starts turning into something deeper. The moment it stops being just physical. The moment two people slowly become unable to imagine life without each other, even while the world keeps pulling them apart.

Because to me, yearning is where love feels the most alive.

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