“You’re everything I want in someone I don’t want anymore.” Ouch! OK, so relationships are not easy. And for everyone of you who are and have been in long, happy marriages, I congratulate you. I’m jealous. But how do we measure success in a marriage? I think we do it all wrong. People change. We get tired. We get bored. We run out of things to say. When we take our vows, til death do us part can be an awful long time. I propose we change our vows to something like this: “I’ll give it my best shot and see what happens.” Just shoot for five or ten years and if you make it that far, you have at least some measure of success. Celebrate!
