All Your Perfects

by Colleen Hoover

“If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”

it’s hard to admit that a marriage might be over when the love is still there. People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost. When anger replaces happiness. When contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren’t angry

at each other. We’re just not the same people we used to be. Sometimes when people change, it’s not always noticeable in a marriage, because the couple changes together, in the same direction. But sometimes people change in opposite directions.

The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. One can exist without the other.