When Robert and Amber had first started going out, she’d had her misgivings. “Sometimes when you think you’re falling in love with someone, you’re really falling in love with the way they make you feel,” she’d told her daughter. “If he’s not someone you’d want as a friend, he probably isn’t someone you’d want as a partner.” Amber had nodded as if agreeing, but nothing changed. Amber was good at that—agreeing to her face but disregarding her advice. That girl had a mind of her own.
Sometimes we can get so tied up in the "idea" of love that we deceive ourselves that its a doable situation that can be worked out as you go along. The better advice is seeing that person as a friend first.
