“Our marriage hasn’t been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”
This scene is actually something I pulled from my own life. I watched an interview once where a couple was giving marriage advice after being married for over sixty years. The reporter asked them what the secret to a long marriage was and the man said, “We never fell out of love at the same time.”
The quote stuck with me, and even though I changed the quote up slightly to fit the book, the meaning behind his words has always stuck with me. He was so honest. Marriage isn’t about a perfect existence. It’s about balance, and also... luck. Because what would have happened to that couple had they fallen out of love at the same time? They’d probably be another statistic.
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