Originally Posted by ngdawg

I look at it the other way...when you think it may not last forever, even though you want it to, you plunge in more, you enjoy it and take more out of it, give more into it. Ther'd be no complacency because that would make it end that much sooner. Way too many times I've seen couples where one or the other and sometimes both basically 'settle in' after the marriage ceremony, as if it was just a big dinner and now they can kick off their shoes and sit back and let things happen instead of making them happen.