My Ideal Person
Traditions destroy, prevent and hinder the human necessity to fulfill sexual and romantic desires. In Love in the Time of Cholera an unusual love triangle between husband and wife in marriage for fifity years and a man who loved the wife for all of that time, patiently waiting his time to repeat his vow of love to her again. “‘Fermina,’ he said, ‘I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.’” (50) Florentino has waited fifty-one years, nine months, and four days to repeat to her his vow of "eternal fidelity and everlasting love." He is the personification of most romantic notions of love; it rules his life. His painstaking angst is caused by the interference in his relationship with Fermina some fifty years earlier, when Lorenzo Daza (Fermina’s patriarchal father) forces marriage upon her with another man.