To love takes courage. Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is hard.
Whoever said anything worth doing is easy? Most of us know that it takes failure and heartbreak to do anything and do it well. So how come we rarely admit that building good relationships—ones that thrive and pass the test of time—involve struggle too?
My wife, Genie and I have been together fifty-one years and are sometimes asked how our marriage works and how we are (as they put it) “still happy.”
We’ve learned a few things. For instance, that you can’t change another person but if you love them, you can slowly change yourself for them. And if the person you commit to loves you back, they will reward you by making some changes too. It’s called growing together instead of apart. And this takes time and is hard to do