I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.

Forever feels a long time when you’re eighteen. When you’re away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.

Everyone wants to help,” she spat.

Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken.

He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer – -she still couldn’t say anything, couldn’t think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.

She walks along the pavement, lost in thoughts about the Internet, so deeply immersed that before she knows it she’s at her front door, and guess what? She completely forgot to buy some chocolate on the war home.

She had never liked those kinds of parties, or truthfully, any parties at all. She was much better on a one-on-one basis, or with small groups of people she knew well and felt comfortable with. Much.

Shock doesn’t hit all at once. I have learned.

The thing is love is really the most important thing. That in love feeling at the beginning settles down into a different, familiar sort of love, but it has to be there right from the start, otherwise it just won’t work.