“I’ve come to think of commitment as something beyond a marriage contract.” She adds, “We’re not sure what to call ourselves. We have no holidays. We don’t know what our future holds. We have only love and the story we are making up together.” Can we imagine that she would say of a committed relationship to the partner of her dreams “we have only love”? From the perspective of midlife, many women can testify that lasting love matters, whether we know it first or only in romantic friendships and/or in bonds of love with nonplatonic unions.
