Robbie Turner.
When you live many years next to the same person, you realise that love isn’t a straight line. It’s a continuous curve, made of climbs, descents… and sometimes even steps backward.
But if you walk together with respect, patience, and the willingness to choose each other again, the journey becomes beautiful — even through its hardest stretches.
Don’t worry if you don’t always feel the “butterflies.” That initial spark is only the beginning. The real fire is fuelled by something deeper: by choices, care and small gestures repeated every single day.
Learn to forgive without wounding, to argue without destroying, to disagree without drifting apart. Difference is not the enemy. Silence without dialogue, pride without limits, and indifference — those are.
And don’t be afraid of time. Don’t fear the idea of growing old together. We were afraid too – of getting bored, of losing each other, of no longer recognising who we are.
But if you protect your connection, if you keep seeking each other even when you think you know one another by heart… love doesn’t fade. It transforms.
There will be hard days. Days when you’re both tired. Days when you have nothing to say. Or days when you simply don’t like each other. That’s okay. Love isn’t measured by perfection, but by the choice to stay even when nothing feels perfect.
And if one day you feel distant, don’t wait for the other to take the first step. Hug. Look at each other as if it were the first time. Remember why you chose one another.
And then… start again. As many times as it takes.
It’s not magic. It’s will. It’s tenderness. It’s shared memory.
And with time… that’s worth more than gold.
