Pride

In the book  Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage by H. Wallace Goddard, PhD, "Love is not a happy accident; it's a choice." (pg 83)

When we first fall in love the feelings are quite intense, it seems that being away from the one you love is even painful, as we grow and time passes these feelings of intensity fade, not necessary the intensity of the love but the feelings that you can't spend a second away from the one you love. However, life moves on and feelings can fluctuate.

Elder Lynn G. Robbins said "Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love from the mind and, therefore, from agency. In commanding us to love, the Lord refers to something much deeper than romance—a love that is the most profound form of loyalty. He is teaching us that love is something more than feelings of the heart; it is also a covenant we keep with soul and mind."

This covenant we keep is a promise that we will strive to continue to love our partners, it should unbreakable and continually built upon to make it stronger.

Stephen R. Covey has said that "Love is a verb, it is an action... All our relationships follow the contours of life; they have ups and downs. This is why our families provide a critical measure of our character—and the opportunity, again and again to nurture it.”6 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site." We must choose to love and keep loving. In these choices we must choose to sacrifice, compromise, uplift, support, repent, forgive, and continually strive to come together