When we are courting, we do things that we might not otherwise do.
Relationship had to be a higher priority than personal hobbies.
We had to decide what we wanted to be at the end of our lives: two people who had grown old together as partners or two people who had grown old alone.
Not only should a couple cultivate common interests, but they should also discover a common cause that both passionately support.
Without a common foundation, the years of old age become the death years instead of the glow years. A husband and wife move toward death in a relationship that is already dead and decaying; they have lost the intrigue, the interest, and the passion in knowing each other.
