Apparently science has discovered something we romantics have known for ages…

Scientists: True love can last a lifetime

Using brain scans, researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have discovered a small number of couples respond with as much passion after 20 years together as most people only do during the early throes of romance, Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper reported.

The researchers scanned the brains of couples together for 20 years and compared them with results from new lovers, the Sunday Times said.

About 10 percent of the mature couples had the same chemical reactions when shown photographs of their loved ones as those just starting out.

Previous research has suggested that the first stages of romantic love fade within 15 months and after 10 years it has gone completely, the newspaper said.

So the cynics and romantics are both right.  The soulmate is a fiction for most people.  But not for all of us.  Alas, that’s a one in ten chance for some of us. 

So…let me do the math here…  One in ten people are gay…maybe one in ten of those are willing to admit it and live openly and proudly…and one in ten of those are capable of lifelong romance.  Yes…I was doomed from the get-go.  And never mind that people who look like that want people who look like that…