Even today, in an age when many people have become cynical about marriage, hope has not been entirely abandoned. Otherwise, no one would get married at all. I've reached the conclusion that the castle of true love must be built, brick by brick. The unique aspect of this type of castle is that no one else can build it for us. Wonderfully large castles take a long time to build, sometimes at the cost of great suffering.
Emotions are powerful, there's no denying that.
The issue really isn't whether couples love each other at the outset-although that is indeed very nice. The real issue is how to maintain and build upon that love-to turn an initial emotional attraction into a burning, roaring furnace of stellar quality love that will last literally forever. It's illogical to think that the powerful, invisible, boundlessly creative force of unselfish love could have sprung from anything other than a creative being. Let us assume then, that God not only created love itself, but the very concept of loving one's spouse in marriage. A vital aspect of our love is that we want it to continue forever.