My partner and I just celebrated our two year anniversary last week, so I decided to speak further on love and relationships. Love is an interesting topic when speaking of struggle as we are led to believe by countless movies, TV shows, books and narratives that when you find “the one,” life becomes easy and love becomes paradise. Unfortunately, the most realistic parts of these stories are the parts in the middle, the disruption to the equilibrium, when work must be done to maintain the relationship: an argument ensues, someone moves away, priorities change etc. The act of simply falling in love does not negate you from struggling forward to keep love present. Love is work.