This isn’t a lovey-dovey Valentine’s Day story. This is a shout-out to all the valentines struggling to hang on.
For 30 years, my husband, Mike, and I have worked with couples preparing for marriage. Over the years, as we aged and morphed, the topics we discussed with the couples morphed as well.
These days, after brief introductions, the first thing I say to the couples is this: “If you are in this for life, I mean through thick and thin, then before you tie the knot, you owe it to yourself to ask your fiancé, ‘Are you in this for life?’”…