A True Story about Real Love

True story: My grandmother once told me that even after years and years of marriage, every time she saw her husband come back from work when she was standing at the kitchen window, her heart would tremble with emotion. She gave me the example of an almond, which has two halves inside. She said she and my grandfather were like that -- they were as tight as two almond halves within the almond shell, entwined with one another, a concave and a convex. And though they often had to adapt to match, they would accommodate one another in order to let the other grow -- separately, but together. "Well", she said, "when you find someone who makes you feel like that, then you can be sure that you have found the person to spend the rest of your life with." It was profound, beautiful, sage advice. Word to the wise: it is not just about hot sex -- it's more about patient love, which allows all the sweetness of a relationship to blossom.