How can true love win out when outside forces constantly pull at our marriage?

Living and loving have become a daily routine. Then distain will strike, like a chord being played by a moody trumpet. It’s loud, brass, and harsh, breaking apart what God has put together.

All I can do is sit in wait, as my obsession won’t let me leave and I continue to crave him. He makes my body sing; his lovemaking is superlative. My desire for his complete love is so strong.

I can’t control my desire for him even when I hate him. His touch thrills me so, yet his attitude and disposition elude me.

All I want is for it to be true, honest, and devoted. Then I ask myself: Is this love or addiction?

About the Author: C. Dale Baldwin grew up in Brooklyn, New York. This is the second novel in a trilogy. The first in the trilogy was A Woman in Love, Deception, and it will end with A Woman in Love, Double-Cross, yet to be published. The author has written two books of poetry, which explore the emotions of the woman in her trilogy, plus three other books. I am inspired by the ups and downs of relations and marriages that I’ve been exposed to from friends and family as well as my own. I want to show that love is a complicated thing and that it isn’t always pure, true, or good. God touched my heart and told me to write this.