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 51 years and are sometimes asked how our marriage works and how we are (as they put it) “still happy.”