Interesting that Love seems to get simpler as one gets older while everything else seems to get more complex. :-)
Very well written article, Bengy.
A thought: In your article you mentioned:
... someone who is your companion on the unknown journey through life, the one who provides safety and contentment, knowing that they somehow, unbelievably, they accept your faults along with any positives that might otherwise be invisible to you. It is the bond with the person who helps you become the best person that you can be, who you will do anything for...
A mutual indebtedness that both intuitively understand can never be fully repaid. Indebtedness, and reciprocity, is a potent drive amongst human beings:
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,
and the trail has its own stern code,
In the days to come, though my lips were dumb
in my heart how I cursed that load!
From The Cremation of Sam McGee, Robert Service https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/cremation-sam-mcgee
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