Love & Partnership

"Love does not attach conditions...  Genuine love is always a free gift.  Love realizes and accepts that there will be disagreements and  disturbing emotions...  There may be times when miles lay between, but love is a commitment to the constant creation of being loving.  It believes in itself and endures all things.  Love encourages full freedom of expression.  Love shares positives and negatives, reactions to warm and cold feelings.  Love -- intimate love -- will never reject others.  It is the first to encourage and the last to condemn.  Love is a commitment to the growth, happiness, and fulfillment of one another."
 -- Barb Upham

I've been working with a large number of couples lately, and it is sacred work in the hardest area of many of our lives - the single relationship where we are most naked and vulnerable. 

I thought this might be a positive message of encouragement and support for those of us who are working really hard to make marriage work.