Love, in other words, is not something natural. It doesn't just happen. It requires work, hard work. It requires deliberate decisions and actions. It requires commitment.
Many people today think of love as a feeling.
This erroneous belief is reinforced by most popular songs on the radio which make love sound like an accident, a spontaneous emotion, which can be neither controlled nor created. But love is not a feeling. You don't fall in love, nor do you fall out of love. Love is something you deliberately decide to do and to give. Those husbands and wives who show love to their marriage partner have made a deliberate decision to be patient and kind.