Success in Love & Art How Creative Couples in Jacksonville Achieve Both
Compiled by Cinda Sherman
Love and marriage are two of the most perplexing subjects ever debated in human history. For instance, the Greek philosopher Plato declared, “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Yet the curmudgeonly English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, “The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
So, what makes a relationship work? The answer, to most, is self-evident: Relationships are work, period. They are risky investments that can bring about life’s most astonishing rewards. And while the relationship challenge spikes dramatically up the difficulty scale when one partner is a creative type, it pegs in the red when both are working artists. What’s the secret? How on earth do these right-side-of-the-brain thinkers do it? Three First Coast couples have opened the doors to their private lives to share how they have made a success in the stressful endeavor of mixing love and art. And though their careers and life circumstances vary greatly, it is quite curious to hear how much they have in common.
