Of course love is feeling (as Mr. Lennon says), not duty, not commitment. The best of marriages are based on love, but couples don't stay married because of love alone (neither do they separate for the lack of it alone). Marriage may be seen as both an expression of love and the sealing of what is planned as a long-term (or lifetime, if you will) commitment. After all, love is not all there is to life; such big words as dignity, responsibility, and commitment are in fact real, and they (and a host of many others) play important roles in defining the lives that we choose to live. I subscribe to the romantic notion that love conquers all, but at the same time I am well aware that the metaphor of conquest is out of place in the world we live in now. I would rather think of love not as a conqueror but as a first among equals among the other intangibles that flit about like fireflies in the dark nights of our souls.

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