When you're all set to yearn for a life of hair-tucking and quaint gestures, it's hard to settle for gluten-free pizza. Or is it? Author Karin Beery is chatting today about her "not romantic" husband. See what you think. I knew when I met my husband that he wasn’t classically romantic. He’s a bit of a redneck—he considers camouflage a “neutral” pattern—and had never read a romance novel nor watched a rom com. I didn’t have high hopes for grand gestures. I was right to be skeptical. He bought me roses once when we were dating. Since we’ve been married (almost 18 years), the only flowers I’ve received were a Crayola-colored bouquet of daisies from the grocery story. As a life-long reader of romance novels (seriously, I started reading them in middle school), part of me grieved. I wanted hair tucked behind my ears, poetic professions of love, and romantic getaways to quaint bed and breakfasts. Instead, I got foot massages after I crawled into bed. And books by authors I’d never heard of because the endorsement on the cover was by an author he knew I loved. And a secret stash of chocolate and potato chips in the garage so he can always give me something sweet or salty when I have one of “those” cravings and there’s nothing in the house I want to eat. My husband tells me how nice I look when I dress up for fancy dinners, but his eyes light up when I join him by the backyard bonfire wearing jeans and a hoodie. He’s always ready with a compliment if I need one. And … he lets ME have the remote control. My husband’s romantic gestures look nothing like anything I’ve seen in novels or movies, but they’re so much sweeter. I still swoon over the first kisses and declarations of love from fiction, but they could never replace the love I feel knowing that our freezer always contains a gluten-free pizza, just in case. Karin Beery grew up in rural Michigan, where she wrote her first novel in high school. Today, she writes contemporary stories with a healthy dose of romance. When she’s not writing fiction, she’s reading, editing, or teaching it. In her free time, she enjoys watching University of Michigan football and action-adventure movies with her husband and fur babies. https://www.facebook.com/authorkarinbeery/ https://twitter.com/karinbeery https://www.instagram.com/karinbeery/ https://www.bookbub.com/profile/karin-beery https://www.amazon.com/Karin-Beery/e/B07HQ2GZQS https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2666258-karin
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