I can see several relationships around me where, although being together for numerous years, the couple is unable to decide to get married. In my experience, love is always on its summit at the beginning of a relationship and after that it is slowly ‘declining’. It doesn’t necessarily means that it gets worse, only that passionate affection slowly transforms into love or into a custom or something else that doesn’t urge the desire for officially committing ourselves to each other. Therefore, I think it’s better to get married early in a relationship. One or two years should be enough to make a decision. If he is the one, you shouldn’t wait and nor should you if he isn’t…
When All Seems Lost — and Even When It Doesn’t… As a writer, I read more than average. Not necessarily books that fall within my immediate interests, but rather those I can learn from, marvel at, analyze word by word, and sometimes even those that demand more effort from me than usual. That is how it is with Alice Munro. I bought my first book by her when she received the Nobel Prize. Then life happened, and the volume sat on my bookshelf—either I had no time for it, or it lingered somewhere at the bottom of my list of priorities. When I finally picked it up, I could hardly believe my eyes—or my reaction. First, I was utterly outraged; my blood pressure shot through the roof in an instant, and I almost started swearing in disbelief. I had barely skimmed the first few lines, yet that was enough to know: it was perfect. A true masterpiece. Excellence among the excellent. Every word reached the deepest layers of my soul. I was touched by its purity, its delicacy, the noblest simpli...
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