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1134: What It Looks Like When You’re Happily Married (An Ode to My Wife) by Evan Marc Katz on Traits of a Good Marriage

Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting

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Married Romance

Married romance is not the romance of watching some one's every move like a stalker and wanting to lick his face, but trying to restrain yourself. What you experience in the first two years of your relationship bears little resemblance to what you experience as a married couple. Real love is based on transparency and comfort, not mystery. It's about having someone to slog through the tough times and celebrate the good ones together. There's nothing like it in the world. Everything will be exactly this unexciting until one of you dies. And it's the absolute greatest. Find me a happily married couple who would trade places with a happy single person. The fact that you can't is a reminder

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