Time after time, history has created an unfortunate couple who overcome all obstacles with the strength of love. Whether it is Pyramus and Thisbe, Romeo and Juliet, or Jack and Rose, the only possibility of separating the couple is the death of one or both individuals. Love is defined in these relationships as the fight against all odds, class, society and even family, to be with your loved one. While these stories may be fictional, history presented a real case of star-crossed “lovers,” Peter Abelard and Heloise. This couple has done little to fight society in trying to establish a relationship with each other. Although for some it is considered a love story, a relationship founded on lust, inability to strive for marriage and union with the church, it shatters the illusion of romance and shows the relationship for what it truly is, a relationship not very bright. The relationship between Peter Abelard and Heloise failed to establish strong bonds between the young couple, allowing lust to be the sole, capricious foundation of the relationship. Peter Abelard was a 12th-century philosopher who, after he began lecturing on the Scriptures, began to gain greater notoriety throughout France and much of Europe. This newfound fame soon turned into presumption, so much so that Abelard considered himself “the only philosopher in the world” (Historia Calamitatum 9). This attitude gave way to a lifestyle of meat, prostitutes, and an inability to focus on philosophy. Peter Abelard met Heloise, a young woman with great promise of study, while he was traveling to Paris (9). Rather than establishing a relationship based on solid foundations, Abelard bases his interest in Heloise through more extraneous factors; Basics of Abelard……half sheet……lifestyle of the relationship between Abelard and Heloise. If the two were truly in love, then they would fight to stay together rather than surrender to a higher being or what society demanded in how to religiously define a relationship. If Abelard and Heloise were truly in love, even the Church would not be able to separate them. Abelard and Heloise faced a number of problems regarding their relationship; they had to deal with their own pride, the inability to separate love from lust, as well as the forces that sever their relational bonds. If the two were truly in love, only death could separate them. Neither Abelard nor Heloise competed with much vigor to be together; they allowed other entities to slowly pull the ties of this partnership and for this reason Abelard and Heloise were unable to be truly in love.