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What do you do when the one love spring, the other winter.
How do you keep a marriage last in spite of the differences?
I am just home from a long day at work. We are having our annual Diocese Days, with 200+ church workers gathered for two days.
Today ended with a late dinner, a lovely opportunity for me to sit down with a best friends which I see too seldom.
We were a group of women siting together. Several of them divorced. One suddenly asked - how do you manage to make your marriages last?
I had no immediate answer to give.
How do we manage?
Love is part of it, but is that all? No other choice, one of the women said. Is she correct? If I met Terje again for the first time today, would I fall in love all over again?
I like to believe that I would.
But can I know for sure?
What if Terje met me for the first time tomorrow?
Would he fall in love?
But why all these questions.
My marriage is based on love. Love for each other, and also a love for spring, a love for winter. Terje is the winter lover and because I love him, I went skiing with him during the weekend. I am the lover of spring and because Terje loves me, he did a "let´s search for spring"-walk with me during the winter.
That´s what it is all about, isn´t it?
Sharing. Giving. Recieving.
Love.
