"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides...
And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident...”
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
I love this quote because I feel like it so accurately describes marriage. I know that I, as well as friends of mine struggle with the fact that married life is not like those first few years of dating... and we seek to consider the marriage as flawed because the "unconscious love" as I like to call it, is gone. I think that if people realized that NOBODY lives in that initial unconscious love on a permanent basis, a lot of marriages would be saved.
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hoping the last part of this isn't aimed at moi
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