True love is work! All the original disney movies talk about you finding your perfect prince or princess. Aladdin finds his perfect princess, Snow White finds her perfect prince with the kiss of life, the stories go on and on. In everyone of these stories, they find there perfect match and the ride into the sunset to live "Happily ever after"...now what?! How long does happily ever after last? Happily ever after is the honey moon that you go on with your spouse and you have the most wonderful time together but like any vacation, you have to travel back to the real world and thats when true love begins. Love becomes work and you have to work at it together to stay in love with each other. When you have a bad day or your spouse does, you have to learn to love each other through these times. You have to work at not taking your frustration or your stressful day out on your loved one. Even if you dated for years and then become married, you are still getting to know that person in a different light then before.
Before you had two separate lives, separate styles of living, separate bills and bank accounts, and separate families. Now all those "separates" have merged into one big package. This package is one that the slight of heart shouldn't open. Open this "present" and you will really see what it takes to truly love someone for better or worse. I can go on and on about how having in-laws that like have their say in your relationship, or money truly causes most of the problems, or whoever "brings in the bacon" has the last say on shopping...all these things will stress the relationship and through it you can grow closer and fall more and more in love with each other everyday. All these things are apart of marriage and growing with your other half. Love is a beautiful and when you sacrifice yourself for the bettering of your spouse, that is when you truly begin to love this person.
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