Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage -- Take 2

I finished reading Fall in Love for Life as the weather finally warmed for spring.  (Nevermind that it snowed again this past weekend....)  But there is nothing like warm weather after several months of unusually cold temperatures to make you feel optimistic.  And there is no better way to bolster those feelings than with love stories!

This book is sometimes unrealistically dismissive of problems, with general advice like, "just get over it."  But the real focus is on preventing problems before they really get to be that way, and that seems like the best advice of all.  In a nutshell, it says, "recognize what a wonderful thing you have, and remember it."  Seems obvious, but often I think can be difficult.  Still, excellent advice.

I was also pleasantly surprised by the occasional gems of wisdom, often buried somewhere in the middle of a chapter where it would be easy to skip over them, since it's such an easy book to breeze through.

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