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The less you demand of something, the less it gives back, the weaker it becomes, until one day it’s a shadow of itself.
‘Marriage isn’t the end of the story, it’s the beginning. And it demands the effort of both partners to make a success of it.’”
It starts off foreign and thrilling, a rollercoaster ride with your eyes shut, knowing dips and turns and plummeting drops are ahead, but never when or how they’re coming. And as you climb that first massive height, then feel the moment when everything changes, when it shifts to a wild, weightless drop, that’s when you learn marriage isn’t the final destination. It’s the ride itself, one moment smooth-sailing, the next, jolting and unpredictable. It’s the ride that’s so upending and life-changing and worth it that we want to stay on and ride it again and again and again.
it can get overbearing.” “So can a plant that hasn’t been pruned. Doesn’t mean the roots are bad.
can choose how to live—miserable about what we’ve lost or grateful for what we still have.
