Dotsie, other than child rearing, I can think of no part of my life that took harder work, or gives me more rewards, than my realtionship with my husband. And considering the children were being raised at the same time as that relationship grew and matured, I'm sometimes amazed we managed it at all! If my husband asked me for a simple explanation of why it's worked for us, I'd answer him with this line from a Rob Thomas song:

Cuz there's a little bit of something me
In everything in you
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Jeannine Schenewerk
www.intouchwithjeannine.com
[i]'It's never too late in Fiction-- or in Life to Revise.'
---Nancy Thayer