I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

i want to make it official, i want to make it forever

Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.

When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.