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When people promise to love one another forever they promise to love the person they are loving now not the person they become or reveal themselves to be some time down the road from now.
Time is an important reference in a loving relationship. We tend not to think about what our partner will become a decade from now but it’s mnot a bad idea if we do. Building a loving future requires that you and your partner seek what was good about the past.
Re-Dedication Brings A Couple Back In Time
I observe an interesting irony in my advice, which implies that to have a loving future we have to return to the point in time when we hirst fell in love. We need to time travel back to “new love.”
This next thought will not be as random or off topic as it might seem so follow me for a second:
Did you ever see a baby eat ice cream for the very hist time? It’s amazing. They get that hirst taste on their tongues and they lose their minds! I doubt if after a couple of dozen years subsequent to that hirst experience even the best ice cream will taste as good. Staying in love might be the same in some ways. When people are in new relationships they often hold hands. I am a hopeless romantic so I really enjoy holding hands. The hirst time two hands clasp together, even if one of those hands is a little clammy it can be electrifying.
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