After Hello (You Had Me at Hello, #1.5)

by Mhairi McFarlane

Part of being grown up is realising that “I don’t want to” is a good enough reason.’

Occasionally one of you will be stupid and another time it’ll be the other one and forgiveness – not of anything, I’m not saying you should turn into Tom Jones’s wife – is why long-term couples stay together. Not because they got the formula magically exactly right at the outset but because they clung on when they had cause to jump off.’