How to Identify Forever Love
Marriage is difficult; showing love should be easy
Relationships are as different as the snowflakes in winter. No instruction book exists that provides a step-by-step process for marriage success because bonds develop at unexpected moments. Love doesn’t live in a playbook.
Anyone with a checklist of characteristics to identify their one true love might as well give up now. That’s not how it works. Love cannot be itemized; it is experienced. Throw away the manual and watch others’ behaviors.
William Shakespeare penned, “They do not love that do not show their love.”
Do the unexpected
Daily behaviors expose love. The foundation of a relationship begins with friendship, when kindness guides actions.
At the age of 17, I dated for the experience. I remember the song, Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places” by Mickey Gilley played on the radio. Laughter and adventure satisfied my desires.
However, my heart beat faster when on a humid summer day, I prepared to float the river. Dressed in only enough clothes to cover the essentials, and with cold drinks in hand, Randy and I prepared for the three-hour rafting trip.
