Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough : Revised

Sappy pop song aside, it's quite true. 'Love' is not enough to make a marriage work.

Feelings are just feelings, and if you make the mistake of starting a relationship based purely or largely on feelings, you're going to end up with a mess. Because, like it or not, feelings fade.

'Love' is a decision to commit. It's a choice to stick with the person even when the initial feelings are gone, to make it work.

So how are you going to make a relationship or marriage work when you have nothing in common?

I'm not talking about minor differences - I know that no two persons are exactly alike.

I'm talking about huge differences; a major discordance when it comes to preferences and inclinations. I'm talking about both parties not being on the same wavelength; when conversation becomes a chore because you have to think of something to say, otherwise it just falls into an awkward silence, and the conversation morphs into something even worse - small talk.

Be bound like that, until death? I don't think so.