You can live with different people, adapt, find compromises, share your life. But love is not about compromise. It is about the feeling that without this person, your world will be gray and empty.
You can live with anyone, but you can't love. There are many relationships in which people stay simply because it is more convenient. They can be friends, they can respect each other, but there is no spark between them, no feeling that makes a person irreplaceable. When you find her - the one - you understand: without her, it will not work. You can try, you can even go to the other end of the world, you can fill your days with work and meetings, but there will always be emptiness inside. Because she is not just a person next to you, she is a part of you. How do you know that it is she?
You do not just want to be with her, you cannot imagine life without her. She does not just make you happy, she makes you better. With her, you can be yourself, without masks and games. Even in silence, you feel good together. You are afraid of losing her not because you are used to it, but because without her, everything loses its meaning.
Don't settle for less. Life is too short to waste it on relationships "for convenience." You do not choose love, love chooses you. And when this happens, do not let go.
Because you should marry not the one with whom you can live, but the one without whom it is impossible. Marina.