Champagne, Mirrors and Romance at the Poconos’ Honeymoon Resorts

ROMANCE

Love, in 2018, is taken seriously. Couples got to therapy, read self-help books, listen to Esther Perel’s TED talks — you look for the one (at least for a certain length of time) but also work for the one. The mechanics of sex and relationships, though elusive, are fairly well-documented. At the same time, you’re also not supposed to show you’re trying too hard to love. The actions of love, it seems, are supposed to happen just under the surface, the imperceptible emotional labor of understanding another person and being understood.

So you might not talk about — or do — something that smacks of trying too hard to love or, more accurately, of romancing someone. Showing up in red lingerie on Valentine’s Day, for instance, or having a designated date night — these things, for some, lack the nuanced spontaneity we’re supposed to masterfully employ. But then you plan a weekend to float with your lover in a heart-shaped pool, enclosed in a red-and-pink tiled room, before seeing your reflection in a many-mirrored wall and falling asleep together under lit-up constellations. And then you know that sometimes planning for romance — and having fun while doing so — very much has its place.

“We all fall in love, we all have special romances with somebody else,” Kyle Kuczma, PR…