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"Another empty room" , by Erik Pevernagie, 80 x 100 cm, Oil on canvas ,xxx

When we unfetter our emotions, we liberate unconscious desires and intuitions and open up new grounds in the jungle of our dreams.

When the rusty shackles of our emotions are unchained, we can become lovers without a cause. Intrinsically, the deepest wells of our unconsciousness may uncover the uncharted territories of deliverance, granting free rein to our intuition and giving love downright carte blanche.

Falling in love is like entering a promised land that offers hope and dreams. It is experienced like a room filled with idyllic ecstasy and extreme comprehensiveness, putting everything in the shade.

Intense and passionate love can be very demanding or exhausting, for it depends on vulnerability, empathy, and emotional investment to navigate the turbulent waters with awareness.

Love has the power to create a unique room of brightness and richness in people's lives. Happiness may have a temporary mood, though. A daily routine may kill endearing or passionate memories. The room’s constraint may become oppressive, and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. Jean-Paul Sartre has been highly aware of this void.

When fiction becomes a reality, it can be a fairy tale or a firestorm. In that case, the time has come to pull up our socks, question our lives, and realign matters.

The idyllic ecstasy of love often overshadows the pitfalls of inattention or monotony and demands, therefore, constant reevaluation and adjustment to reset the emotional benchmarks.

When love becomes a complex mind game or a volatile tinderbox of mental conflicts, our emotional benchmarks need a reset. This self-reflection and adjustment are crucial for the health of our relationships.

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or just a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism, and dim deficiency in empathy.

The idyllic ecstasy of love often overshadows the pitfalls of inattention or monotony, thus demanding constant reevaluation and adjustment to reset the emotional benchmarks.

It is so simple and easy to hate but very demanding and exhausting to love when the vow "love forever" has crumbled down to an assertion of "love never, ever again." When the bonds of trust have been blasted, a way back to a lost paradise is difficult.

Stefan Zweig has experienced the oppression of the room's emptiness: "Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore."

Kafka reveals his feelings to Milena: "Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors, and each of us holds the handle of one door. One of us flicks an eyelash, and the other is already behind his door. Now, the first one has but to utter a word, and immediately, the second one has closed his door behind him and can no longer be seen. Sometimes, both are behind the doors, and the “beautiful room is empty."

Phenomenon: Love and the quality of a relationship

''Factual starting point: Room with man and woman embracing