Love defies the borders of reality, creating the magical realism that permeates the novel. Tita’s love for Rosaura’s children is immense, allowing her to love and care for them as if they were her own children. Tita considers Nacha, who loves her and whom she loves, to be her real mother. Just as romantic love often exists outside of marriage, Esquivel also shows that maternal love can exist outside of biological mother-child relationships. After Tita and Pedro begin a secret affair, Gertrudis eases Tita’s guilt by reasoning that true love is more sacred than the roles of husband and wife. John Brown, who loves and supports her unconditionally. Tita is unable to recreate the same kind of love with anyone else, including the kind Dr.
They remain loyal to each other, even though Rosaura has the official title of Pedro’s wife. Tita and Pedro swear their undying love when they first meet each other, and though forbidden by Mama Elena and later by Pedro’s marriage to Rosaura, the lovers struggle with their prevailing desire to be together. Central to the book is the notion that Pedro and Tita are each other’s true loves. In the novel romantic love forms a spiritual bond that matters more than the formal structure of marriage. Furthermore, true love doesn’t always answer to social codes of morality. True love is a unique event, capable of incredible resilience. It is genuine love, not social or biological structures, that creates familial and romantic bonds. The novel portrays love as a magical force capable of defying reality.
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