Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy.

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.

I hope the reader's sense that I am deeply empathetic with the pain of being in a desperate marriage, but I also believe that the person who is married to the abuser or the alcoholic or whomever has the greatest potential for helping them.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.