No relationship is ever a waste of time. It didn't bring you what you want, it taught you what you don't want. - unknown

Love is the easy part. Relationship is the challenge. But then you knew that. In the old days, they really believed that finding love was the hard part. And then they were startled when they found it and things got difficult. But now we are coming to understand that it is often quite the opposite. That working through the unresolved feelings and issues that get in the way of love is the hard part. It is, but there is something quite profound in that, if we can stay together and see the process through. Something happens to our understanding of love. No longer a projected imagining, we come to see it in a far more substantial light. What we once called love was just the beginning. What comes later, after years of watching each other bravely confront the challenges, is the real thing. Where before a flight of fancy, it now has roots... everywhere. - Jeff Brown