As Linda Ronstadt famously sang, “it’s so easy to fall in love.”
Staying in love — well, that is significantly harder, a fact to which an army of marriage counselors and self-help writers can readily attest. Once the wonders of the honeymoon phase are over and everything one’s beloved does don’t seem quite as wonderful, the harder parts about being considerate, patient and consistently a positive force in someone else’s life really come home to roost.
Sometimes we live up the challenge. Sometimes we don’t — and the relationship comes crashing and burning to an end.