Reflections on Love and Relationships

At Maison Julien, the menu changes every day. Some dishes come back from time to time, because they are like the framework of my cuisine and I particularly love them. But most of the time, everything is created and reorganized out of inspiration.

This reflects my vision of life. An obedience to myself that I cannot avoid. It is how life speaks to me. And it is why I write and share on social media: like giving away “vitamins of happiness” for free — joy in novelty, renewal, and in choosing an exciting lifestyle.

Every day, welcoming different guests, I observe. Singles, young couples, others celebrating long marriages. And I realize that love between a man and a woman is both one of the most beautiful and one of the most dangerous things in the world.

Beautiful, because the passion of the early days, if preserved, can make life a daily firework. The happiness of waking up together, rediscovering each other each morning, like a permanent wedding anniversary.

Dangerous, because most couples sink into habit and lose the spark. That is why so many great love stories end in tragedy: Romeo and Juliet, who could only unite in death; Paul and Virginie, carried away by fate, forever young; Tristan and Isolde, consumed by forbidden passion, doomed to separation.

Yet this is not an unavoidable fate. If we accept to question ourselves, to remain vigilant and attentive, then love can resist habit, and endure as a living presence embodied in reality across time.

But the question remains: must the ideal couple stay an ideal, or can it truly be embodied in reality, across time, until the very end?