love affair
romance , **

She had seen a number of love affairs run their course.

Do I ever go on about your love affairs in this way?

No way in real life would they ever have had a love affair.

After all, our story has a love affair at its heart.

The end of a love affair can seem like a death.

I kept him away from you until the love affair died.

It was the beginning and end of love affairs I could not walk away from.

Once upon a time, he thought, we had a love affair with fire.

That was the beginning of a love affair, and I now return each year.

At least they said that my love affair with his wife was over.