Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.