Ebb and Flow of Life.. of Love.. of Relationships

Image credits to Cade Martin at One Eyeland.

"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern."

ANNE LINDBERG

I can't for the life of me remember where I read this, but there is nothing but truth in these words.
You can love someone but you certainly can't love them all the time.