Read again.
Love exists. “Romantic” love is your sex drive raging to procreate.
I’m not down on two people loving each other. However, marriage MUST be an understanding of how reality is. Sexual attraction, with enough time, will gradually diminish, and what’s left can only be shared memories, a birthed family and deep friendship.
To expect your other will be your lifelong sex symbol is profoundly naive and ignorant.
Once the biological agenda is finished, either through age or scores of children, a single union, as a be-all sexual institution, is over.
Almost everyone in my family stays married. Grandparents were together 60-plus years. My folks ... almost at 60. Siblings ... pushing 30 and 40 years, respectively.
Truly remarkable. And the love is palpable. Powerful.
But the butterflies, romance and starry feelings have long since burnt out.