To be known in this way is a priceless thing, because such understanding and acceptance make it easier to live with our problems and failures and worries. But, again, while marriage is the intimate sharing of two lives, it can yet enhance the differences and individuality of each partner. We must give ourselves in love, but we must not give ourselves away. A good and balanced relationship is one in which neither person is over-powered or absorbed by the other. Thus it is out of the resonance between individuality and union that love, whose incredible strength is equal only to its incredible fragility, is born and reborn.
Love is long-suffering and kind.
Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look out for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. You have chosen to journey together down this earthly valley in the brief moment of time that is yours.