I love this song. It is so beautiful and seems like it could mean different things at different stages of life. Right now, as my husband and I watch friends end their marriage, it seems to be a reminder that happiness isn't something that comes of life being perfect. You have to be happy or content to be "in the storm" too.
Feelings of romantic love are not a perpetual thing. They come and go, and solid relationships are the ones where the couple can accept as inevitable and work with the times when "The blood of love soon neglected, Lay dying in the strength of its impurity" so that you can make it through to "love's recovery."
It's the mysterious question of why some long term relationships/marriages last and why some don't. This couple with their own struggles "search for [their] absolute distinction wondering what they have that the others don't that lets them carry on and still want to be together despite the bad times."
They suggest that it is an illusion that one can live a life of perpetual "fairer weather" with the right person when the reality is that the storms are inevitable.
I love this song. It is so beautiful and seems like it could mean different things at different stages of life. Right now, as my husband and I watch friends end their marriage, it seems to be a reminder that happiness isn't something that comes of life being perfect. You have to be happy or content to be "in the storm" too.
Feelings of romantic love are not a perpetual thing. They come and go, and solid relationships are the ones where the couple can accept as inevitable and work with the times when "The blood of love soon neglected, Lay dying in the strength of its impurity" so that you can make it through to "love's recovery."
It's the mysterious question of why some long term relationships/marriages last and why some don't. This couple with their own struggles "search for [their] absolute distinction wondering what they have that the others don't that lets them carry on and still want to be together despite the bad times."
They suggest that it is an illusion that one can live a life of perpetual "fairer weather" with the right person when the reality is that the storms are inevitable.