Romantic Novels – The Psychology behind reading about romance and its affect on relationships.

Romance is all about love which starts with initial attraction and offers beautiful experience which many of the young generations have been mostly obsessed about. The readers of romance based novels have reported experiencing pure joy and despite all odds in the reality the readers feel a ray of hope that love teaches the biggest sacrifice for others and is the most positively influencing experience for the human senses

PSYCHOLOGY

Deepak Bhatia (Counseling Psychologist)

10/27/20243 min read

Romantic Novels

Regularly spending hours reading romantic novels are one of the most common addiction that people suffer from across the globe.

Addiction of reading romantic novels is a subject of study across global research platforms

The Psychology of people behind reading about romance and its affect on relationships is a matter of high interest amongst human behavior researchers across the global platforms

Romance is the biggest obsession amongst young generations

Romance is all about love which starts with initial attraction and offers beautiful experience which many of the young generations have been mostly obsessed about.

Reading romantic novels is researched to offer feeling of joy to the readers

The readers of romance based novels have reported experiencing pure joy and despite all odds in the reality the readers feel a ray of hope that love teaches the biggest sacrifice for others and is the most positively influencing experience for the human senses.

Romantic novels offers exploring own fantasies

The reason why people love reading romantic novels is they are able to explore their own fantasies and feel more confident trusting the stories as real incidents although in the understanding of Psychology it is not true and is only a fantasy and pure Imagination which yields pleasure to senses.

Romantic stories take the reader in dream world away from realities of life

There’s a total difference between stories and real life. The challenges and hardships of real life are quite different and based on altogether different priorities and this is not so in the case of romantic stories as they are having a dream world kind of projection of life which attracts the attention of the readers and due to this projection of very sweet and dreamy life the readers get Interested in reading the romantic stories.

Romance if practiced in moderation can be good for mental health

Many Psychologist after deep researches have observed that romance can benefit any relationship if it is indulged within limits since anything beyond a certain limit may prove fatal in this world.

Romantic novels reduce stress amongst readers

The readers of romantic novels have a stress reducing experience by indulging in regular reading as they feel a kind of clean, pleasant and extremely healthy to live in feelings.

Leading psychologist view on healthy attachment

In view of Robert Sternberg one of the famous Psychologists specializing in love related Psychology the following components are essential for keeping the fire burning Intimacy i.e. healthy attachment & Passion.

Romantic Psychology and its connect with Philosophy

Romantic Psychology emerged in 18th and early 19th century in Europe, its main feature was the Philosophical approach since it was linked to soul and study of emotions and human imagination.

Love is considered as the highest virtue

Love is considered as the highest virtue and people like to talk about it, crave for it and always try finding it in their lives especially romantic love has been considered as sweetest mystery that many find difficulty in explaining their feelings about as to how it affects them.

Lot of creative work available on love and romance

There are countless books and even films made on the topic of romance.

Many great lyricists have tried to express it beautifully in some of the classic songs which had become an all time hit.

Reading about romance is good if one remains grounded in reality of life

Reading Romantic novel is not bad and so is falling in love with somebody as far as if it is done moderately by staying connected with reality and our real life responsibilities for a safe and healthy relationship for ourselves and also for others.

Reading about romance must not let reader sway in emotions away from social obligations

This can only make the world a beautiful place to live in, if we try to be practical and responsible in life nd not simply swayed by emotions and sweet feelings alone.