By Suzanne Carré
Vampire love is in the heart and this means it starts inside. Thinking vampire when considering love means you acknowledge the way love begins in you before it can be extended to others. Pure love for your mind and body makes for a more beautiful you—our emotions reflect in our appearance. In vampires this equates to power. For the male vampire, his love capacity is the only way he can achieve equality with the females. If he marries vampire style, he has unlimited power at his disposal. But he has to begin humbly by initiating the love in himself.
Male domain in love
We are very fortunate in that we all have an equal potential for human love. Vampire males are mainly influenced by love in the supernatural world because females concern themselves with sex only. The lessons for vampire love are then directed towards the male, for his culturing of love, and his use of love with females. Vampires identify love as male in character, and necessary for the male mind to develop, so even female vampires have recorded the ways to educate in love (for their sons and lovers).
In my novel, the idea of male love is an significant theme I explore through my hero Vincent. My love story has a villain, all good tales need a bad guy, but Vincent’s evil father is dead before the narrative starts. Like all bad vampires he’s staked, yet it is not what he is that becomes important, but what he did. The repercussions of his violent rule without love embodies the challenge facing Vincent to restore male vampire love and regain control of the vampires. Vincent claims his father didn’t know how to love and destroyed his world, and ultimately his existence, because of his ignorance of love. In the preternatural domain it is essential for males to know how to love.
Love changes the mind
Love to us may not be the supernatural power store of the vampires but we can use it to create a little magic within ourselves. To begin with the vampire style of self-love, we start with loving your mind. Vampires live a curse of remembering everything their ancestors thought of. It means being troubled for eternity with all the failings of the past. To conquer their fears and regrets, vampires use self-love. Forgiving our minds for any mistakes we made, because we’re human, is necessary. Love inside cannot establish if your mind punishes you for your heart. Vampires see this as an attitude towards love and it has to be constructive.
Let Love Grow
Begin by not holding onto regrets about love experiences that failed. Love to vampires is not a light switch—either on or off—so you never lose love totally. Vampire love also builds from the last time so you need to see each attempt as a lesson in the art of love. You always gain from every step in the learning process. A mind trained in love recognizes love and then won’t refuse it. Vampires believe the love of our hearts is very important so never feel shame over your need for love. Your mind is very influential so it must be prepared for love to allow the feelings to grow.
If you had bad experiences because you didn’t know the difference between love and sex, then be gentle on yourself—you couldn’t know what love and sex are without first asking a vampire. Ease out the negative feelings and let your self-love charge the mind. If you release the power of love from within, it will show, not physically so much, but other people respond positively to an attitude of love freed from any doubts and guilt.
So now I feel good because I’ve let my heart direct me in love—now what? Next step is separating love from the body.
