Yeah, absolutely. I believe it. I've noticed a distinct shift from when I was younger in that I value hard work so much more. I'm not great at it, but one of the important ideas that's helped me along the way is in framing hard work, and the hard work of facing the hard work, as a practice. I consider our relationship to be one of those essential practices in empathetic imagination, of leaping infinitely across the abyss. You know what this reminds me of? ”Let’s just assume this is going to be difficult, ok? ... Let’s assume it’ll be hard, and be grateful when it is not and know it is normal when it is.” |This is something we would have done when we first met too, the only difference now is that we went to see Despicable Me 2 and had a 2.5 year old with us :) That's adorable.Yeah, we just thought we'd get married cause why not really... -Hey, sometimes that works, but more often than not it takes some real work and more than anything good communication skills to make a marriage work in the long run.
Like anything worth while in life it takes work. That's all.