Real love does not fade away, it does change and mature with time. The fire in a loving couple will fade but love itself does not!

I'm speaking from my own experience so for a change I do know what I'm talking about. I fell in love with my wife in the summer of 1967 but I didn't know it yet and neither did she. She was my best friends sister and I had a crush on her but did do anything about it. We went our separate ways, she got married while I went to war. She lived in the same area we grew up in while I did a lot of moving around, being in the military. When my enlistment ended I was living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. About a year later I returned to my home town. She got divorced from an abusive husband when her brother, my best friend, brought her with him and his wife, to my house for an evening of cards. On June 1 or 1973 we were married. She was my only love for 42 years 11 months and 19 days. My love for her never faded away. It changed and the passions and desire lessoned over the years but she was always my best friend and the only woman I had really loved.

I'm not saying it was easy and there were periods that I didn't even like her but deep inside that love was always there. About 10 years into our marriage we had a rough period of about 4 years. We almost separated but We started to talk about how thing were between us the previous 9 years and it make both of us realize we were drifting apart. We talked about the silly things that 2 people in love do for each other and about how much we missed those intimate moments. This went on for a few days and we both realized that we want that back in our lives. It was as if we fell in love all over again but what really happened was that we listened to our hearts and knew that the love was still there. So we rediscovered our silly and goofy passion and desire from the start of our marriage and it lasted until the day she passed away 4 years ago. It was not always smooth sailing but whenever one of us noticed that we were drifting apart we would have the same discussion that brought us back from the edge of divorce. The last 10 years our intimate moments were her sitting on my lap in the morning, drinking coffee and talking about everything. We hugged and kissed and that we all that there was to it. So for 10 years we didn't have sex at all but that didn't matter. She was still the love of my life. And the day she died I would have gladly traded places with her. i lost the only woman I ever truly loved and when I think about her today I still feel that longing for her. And yes a tear comes to my eye. So no one can tell me that love fades and dies because it doesn't!!!!!

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