What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
