Love's Many Guises by Faith Bicknell-Brown

Our guest today is Faith Bicknell-Brown. Faith’s work has appeared in a wide range of genres such as: Would That It Were, Touch Magazine, GC Magazine, Ohio Writer Magazine (non-fiction), Waxing and Waning (Canada), and The Istanbul Literature Review (Turkey) just to name a few. She was a regular contributor to Gent under her pseudonym, Molly Diamond. She has also had fiction published in Hustler’s Busty Beauties, Penthouse Variations, Twenty 1 Lashes, and has become a regular contributor to Ruthie’s Club. In addition, Faith has several e-books and some print titles published under Zinnia Hope and J. Emberglass.

For two years, Faith served as the co-editor of The Tenacity Times. In October 2001, she took the position of romance and horror editor for Wild Child Publishing and served as the managing editor for Wild Child as well as its sister division, Freya’s Bower. She is represented by TriadaUS Literary Agency.

Check out Faith's latest release at Freya's Bower. Conspiracy of Angels is a tale of forbidden love and scandalous secrets. Grab one of the few print copies left and get the discounted price too!

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Welcome Faith! Now, let's see what the wise Ms. Bicknell-Brown has to say about love....

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Love comes in many guises. We’ve all experienced puppy love, and most of us know what it’s like to love a person but have personalities so different we want to throttle one another.

There’s the love for a parent, the love for a child. We have love for our dearest friends, and we even have love for those cyber pals whom we’ve known for several years and have never met face to face.

There’s the love for the god we worship, and there’s the love of life too.

However, that one love we all covet is the rarest of all. That all-consuming love for a significant other, that one special someone who we’ll spend the rest of our life with.

And what’s odd about love is that it often seems like the real thing, but then heartache rears its ugly head.

So how do we recognize that special love? How does a person tell the difference between true love and a temporary love?

My parents possess and enjoy the rare love, but they were lucky. They married when Mom was 17 and Dad was 19. Two weeks after they were married, Dad was shipped off to Viet Nam. Forty-five years later, they’re still together. They’ve weathered the worst and love each other all the more for those times.

My aunt, Elma, and my uncle, Don (God rest his soul), married when she was 14 and he was 19. They were together nearly 60 years when Don was called home. They had many children, and as a result, Elma now has 19 great-grandchildren.

So what’s they’re secret?

I haven’t the foggiest. I’ve been married four times, but my current husband is the love of my life. I don’t know why I married the other three besides the fact that I ‘loved’ them. Well, two of them. The first was a case of young and stupid, lol.

Did I learn anything from those past ‘loves’? Sure, and that’s why I’m writing this blog. Like I said, love comes in many guises.

My advice to the lovers out there? Take it slow, keep your eyes and ears open, and don’t take everything at face value. Be honest. Ask your potential mate questions, and never be the object of any sort of abuse. Never.

Love is both giving and taking. Without both, you need to ask yourself: is it love?