RE: My... Romeo and Juliet are... Deirdre & Naoise
It's no love if we have to force ourselves to be different out of fear to lose ... What exactly? The love we think we had?
True love is like, respect the other including what we dislike or can't understand just because we know if it comes to it that person shows up and be around as long as needed to stand on own feet again. To achieve that takes time.
My father said too: Forever is a very long time and since the average person gets older than 32, think before you get married (he didn't think himself since he divorced at least twice).
On the other hand the old General i lived with said: You can only love one person for real.
It made me sad that he didn't feel that way about his second wife, the former nanny, he married to safe her from gossips. She raised his children and cared for the man who was 25 years older. She was my friend, both were, she slept on the floor next to his bed just to be there if he needed her help. This was love from her side.
Life can be so cruel at times..
I just feel what the nanny must have been through to win his love!!
Well, such is life!
I hope she loved him enough to live with that fact. Those children were the worst after he died she became homeless.