They don’t tell you that love will be work. That it won’t always be a freely flowing stream of adoration and attention and growth. That sometimes love will mean choices you don’t want to make and roads you don’t want to take, and that it’s going to be every bit as unglamorous as it is incredible and brave. They don’t tell you that love might turn you into someone you don’t want to be. And that you’re going to have to do a lot of learning if you ever want to grow inside of love.
