Love Edward Cullen

 Women all over the world are swooning over Edward Cullen!

But why do we love Edward? It's easy to see how sexy he is, but what else is it that pulls at us all when we watch the movie? Let's think about it.

Edward Cullen, pseudo son of Dr. Carlisle and Esme Cullen, is a vampire. While everything about us as normal human beings should shout "STAY AWAY!", we cannot ignore the romantic air of Edward. Like he says in the first movie "Everything about me is meant to lure you in", and it does. But what exactly is it that lures us in the audience? What is it that Edward "Robert Pattinson" has that makes us all go "ooooooh!"?

After watching the movie a million times (well probably more like 20 or so) with my adult daughter, I think I may have figured it out. As a 50 year old woman who has been married almost 30 years, romance starts to get thin. And as you might imagine many women are in "less than romantic" relationships that they would like to change. We as women are geared more towards romance than men. We love to be wined and dined, to be danced with and serenaded. We eat up anything and everything that makes us feel like the most important thing in the world. We love everything that leads up to that "special moment". It's the whole idea of the man wanting you so badly, but not taking you fully that stirs a woman inside. That total respect for you.

Being that Edward Cullen is a vampire that could easily lose control and suck Bella dry, it shows us just how much he cares for her when he restrains himself, yet allows himself to get just close enough to her to keep her happy. The slow first kiss that seemed to take forever, but we loved every yummy second of it! The piano playing as she sat next to him knowing that he wanted her so bad. Edward personifies romance, and I think if it hadn't been Robert Pattinson playing the part of Edward, the character would have come up short. He MADE the character even more romantic, possibly because as we all know now, he had a thing for the lovely Kristen Stewart(Bella). This allowed his true passion to flow through the scenes. They were even more intense and believable.

Whether it was Robert Pattinson's true feelings for Kristen Stewart or if was simply Stephenie Meyers awesome writing abilities, The Twilight Saga will always hold special places in all womens hearts.