What Being a Wife Has Taught Me About Love

When people tell you love is complicated. I don’t think they realize how accurate that can be at times. Love itself is not complicated, but the actions, words, and experiences surrounding it can be.

Being a wife has taught me so much about love. Love can mean so much, love can be easy, love can be hard, but love, most of all, is rewarding and miraculous. Before Ethan and I were married, I thought I understood what love meant. For the most part, sure, I understood that when you love someone, that meant you would care about them, you’d ask them how they were, how their day was going, and you’d honestly do things for them without being asked. What I didn’t understand was the depth of love and how deeply it can truly fasten to your core. 

Why is Love So Important to Me? 

Love is what brought Ethan and me together, and love is what we rooted our relationship on. As we grew together, got to know each other more and more, our love began to flourish into a strong value, a moral, and an automatic response we have in our lives. When we are faced with opposition, hardship, and difficulty, our first thought, feeling, and action is to love.

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