A meditation on what happens after the fireworks fade; when love stops being performance and becomes something quieter, stranger, and far more enduring.
My husband and I just celebrated 22 years of marriage!
Thank you for such an accurate and beautiful description of what love is really all about. "Endurance of the ordinary" is so accurate. And, yet, that is where the beauty lies.
That is true love. We all change over time and we can fall in love all over again with the different versions of our partners. Just when we think we figured things out.
“Because lasting love is rarely built from perpetual excitement, it is built from endurance of the ordinary, from a thousand small tendernesses so repetitive they almost become invisible.”
My husband and I just celebrated 22 years of marriage!
Thank you for such an accurate and beautiful description of what love is really all about. "Endurance of the ordinary" is so accurate. And, yet, that is where the beauty lies.
27 years in and I'm still amazed by my wife's love for me. I doubt I'd endure 'me' for 27 minutes!
So much of what you have written Caz doesn't just ring true, it shouts the truth through a loud hailer rigged up to a stadium sound system!
That is true love. We all change over time and we can fall in love all over again with the different versions of our partners. Just when we think we figured things out.
This:
“Because lasting love is rarely built from perpetual excitement, it is built from endurance of the ordinary, from a thousand small tendernesses so repetitive they almost become invisible.”