Falling in Love is Easy, Staying that Way is Not
This was a difficult lesson to learn, that falling in love is easy. My experience says staying that way is hard.
Host: Tom Hering
“It takes love, respect, trust, understanding, friendship and faith
in your relationship to make it last.”
— Unknown
Two marriages and divorces make me a novice at best.
But I will tell you that I certainly have observed what I think makes for a loving and lasting relationship.
My parents were married for 58 years until my mom passed away in 2008.
What made that love last was what’s mentioned in the quote above.
I saw it through my dad’s open-heart surgery.
I witnessed it with my mom’s three bouts with the “Big C”.
And I observed it as my dad’s dementia took an ever strengthening hold of his memory in his 80s.
Through it all, I saw heavy doses of respect, trust, understanding, friendship and faith throughout their nearly six decades of marriage.
Those qualities are something I think you’ll find in every long-lasting love story. (The kind that last through golden wedding anniversaries.)
And it’s something I believe, while rare, has been going on from the
beginning of time.
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