An Extra Ordinary Life

<p>Many years ago after Bill and I returned from conducting a teacher training session we were having lunch in our Florida room rehashing the experience and laughing at our mishaps. A young man Bruce was busy building a new wet bar for us when he interrupted his work to inquire. “Excuse me but I am in the middle of a nasty divorce and you two seem to have such a happy relationship. What does it take?”</p><p>Taken off guard we improvised. “A good sense of humor a common interest mutual respect . . .” When Bruce started to leave I stopped him. “Bruce it is none of the above. It is loving each other.”</p><p>Since then I have been mulling it over. What exactly does marital love consist of? Maybe it actually is all of the above but I sense that manifestations of a real caring for each other vary with idiosyncrasies personalities moods and circumstances. As romantic love settles into daily routines with memories and histories to bind us tighter and tighter together we become one. Almost literally we are one body and one being feeling the good and the bad in each other like Siamese twins in one body one mind one heart!</p>