Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.
Erich FrommThe third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of โfallingโ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of โstandingโ in love.
Erich Fromm