Love Remains The Same

William Shakespeare once wrote, ~Love is not a love which alters when alteration finds. It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempest and is never shaken. Love alters not with time's brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.~ Let me ask you this question, have you ever stood back and looked at a couple and thought to yourself those two are going to make it because you have this innate feeling in your gut they actually will? It's a feeling you can't explain and yet you somehow know they will not become another sad statistic of broken relationships. I'm sure we've all had that feeling and whether it's two people you have known for quite some time or just met you know they'll defy the odds that can possibly change the course of both their lives forever for better or worse.

If you think about it, there is a sense of hope and safety when you look at a couple that you somehow know will make their relationship last. For its a type of hope and safety in which your personal life in regards to dating is filled with so much drama or lack thereof you can always count on those two to be your proverbial fortress of solitude to show things are going to be okay, whereby giving hope within your heart. Its a tough situation indeed to get frustrated when it comes to matters of the heart but when you have the opportunity to talk to a couple who are in a happy, significant relationship you're seemingly put at ease. Thinking about it, within the safety of their relationship you're comforted in knowing the fears, worries, doubts, etc. may have fallen by the wayside.

Without a doubt, every couple has had their fair share of arguments or should I say discussions concerning significant, as well as insignificant aspects of a relationship. I think it would be safe to say men and women get angry to where an argument occurs to the point where they both can be driven completely insane. We've all been in a situation where we witnessed a couple having a discussion putting us in an awkward position but during that discussion you see something truly amazing happen. It's through one simple gesture. possibly verbal, that inevitably turns the mood of the whole situation around from being tense to one where they embrace each other apologizing for their attitude. Let me tell you something, to witness this in person is a sight to behold.

For the question can be asked to those in a significant relationship, has there ever been a point where you've experienced a rough patch when it pertains to your marriage? Essentially, all couples face the same difficulties and yet the circumstances are different for each one of them. For a number of couples, they've endured being separated when problems arise resulting in living apart bringing unwanted changes, giving time for both people to think and have a breather from the pressures resulting from the drama that in all intents and purposes smothered them. When enough time has passed a step towards a reconciliation is taken and it doesn't matter who takes the initiative to do it first as long as both have the willingness to fight/work to help heal the relationship from the inside out.

About a week ago a friend of mine said to me in regards to a past yodaism, ~Love is purely good and perfect. It is humans, however, who are not so good and perfect. Because of that, we have a tendency to mess things up" In retrospect, I agree with her because when it comes to a significant relationship such as marriage it isn't perfect as mistakes are made that can mess up the dynamic of what two people created together. As long as we learn from those mistakes and not continue to not repeat them the relationship has a chance to become perfect in an imperfect way. In the end, relationships are bound to change as a couple may screw up, have arguments to the point where they drive each other up the wall, and possibly deal with rough patches, but love remains the same, which is a song by ex-Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale that reflects this thought.