Love is the intimate understanding, acceptance of, and commitment
to ourselves and to another person
We are born into the love of our family,
and through that love we learn to love ourselves
Transferring on to the important people
who may cross into our lives over a lifetime –
close friends, romantic partners,
and subsequently our children, and our children’s children
Being in love is love’s expression and intensification
due to the physical and mental intimacy that results
from two persons’ initial attraction
and subsequent growth together
Marriage is a partnership between two people,
built upon a foundation of deeper love,
where the partners define themselves through the marriage
as well as individually,
structuring their lives according to a shared vision
The partnership creates a family, with or without children
Its success is dependent upon both partners
understanding, accepting, and successfully negotiating its cyclical nature,
never letting it veer into the path
of becoming linear
MM 9/13, revised 10/15
to ourselves and to another person
We are born into the love of our family,
and through that love we learn to love ourselves
Transferring on to the important people
who may cross into our lives over a lifetime –
close friends, romantic partners,
and subsequently our children, and our children’s children
Being in love is love’s expression and intensification
due to the physical and mental intimacy that results
from two persons’ initial attraction
and subsequent growth together
Marriage is a partnership between two people,
built upon a foundation of deeper love,
where the partners define themselves through the marriage
as well as individually,
structuring their lives according to a shared vision
The partnership creates a family, with or without children
Its success is dependent upon both partners
understanding, accepting, and successfully negotiating its cyclical nature,
never letting it veer into the path
of becoming linear
MM 9/13, revised 10/15
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