on being a couple and a partner

Stay together, I said. It’s going to get hard. Your kids are young. Your careers are just starting to take off. But stay together. Be there, even when it’s hard. Even when it’s inconvenient. After I got off the call, I kicked myself for not remembering a quote by C.S. Lewis: “Friendship is unnecessary,” he wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like th... See more

Whenever we play to each other’s strengths we accomplish our goals effectively, resisting stress or strain. If one of you loves to decorate, cook, and arrange flowers, the other might be one who enjoys fixing things, making sure everything around the house is in working order. One of you loves to drive and the other loves to be driven. One of you e

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