It's a Love Story

by Annabel Monaghan

This feels like wealth, I think. This is the thing you save up for. You live your whole life so that you can be surrounded by too many people in too small of a room and tell the story of how it all happened.

In my life, love actually happens over breakfast. It happens during our morning dog walk, where we talk through our plans for the day and laugh about something we saw on TV a decade ago. It happens in line at the DMV and in hospital rooms and over texts from Costco. I’ve found that long-lasting love is about just showing up for the other person, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and treating them like they’re as important as your house keys.