I don't think love is enough to make a marriage last. It's just a buy-in not the whole game.
Down the road, love stops looking like flowers or late night conversation or aesthetic dates.
It looks like sitting beside someone in a quiet hospital room
It looks like learning how to care for your person when they're literally too weak to care for themselves
It's easy to love someone when life is beautiful. But real life eventually enters the chat as life will ask things of you that butterflies never could.
It will ask you to be patient when you're completely running on fumes
to stay gentle when you're struggling
to keep choosing each other through seasons when neither of you feel like your best self 

The person we marry isn't just the person we will grow old with. They are the person we are going trust with the parts of life that might break us. And perhaps that's why it needs more than a feeling behind it. It needs character, commitment, and the willingness to show up when showing up is hard.
Down the road, love stops looking like flowers or late night conversation or aesthetic dates.
It's easy to love someone when life is beautiful. But real life eventually enters the chat as life will ask things of you that butterflies never could.

The person we marry isn't just the person we will grow old with. They are the person we are going trust with the parts of life that might break us. And perhaps that's why it needs more than a feeling behind it. It needs character, commitment, and the willingness to show up when showing up is hard.
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