Love Requires Costly Compromise

Marriage, said an unknown pundit, is the art of two incompatible people learning to love compatibly together.  Anyone who has been married for more that 24 hours would agree that sustaining a marriage takes more than romantic feelings.  It takes a deep commitment of love which reaches beyond your emotions and feelings to meeting the needs of another.  It’s costly, too!  But its currency isn’t monetary.  We pay by repressing the desire to always be right, by giving up the desire to win every round.  Yes, love learns to compromise, to yield, but triumphs in the end.