I’m not quite to the point where I have been married for most of my life, but I have known my wife for a majority of my time on earth.
One might think that romantic holidays like St. Valentine’s Day would be somewhat stale, and to a certain extent, it is, insofar as lavish outings are the exception these days rather than the rule.
But there is also a certain sense of contentment and happiness that is in many ways superior. I think one of the challenges of modern relationships comes from people who aren’t acquainted with what mature relationships are supposed to be and how they are properly sustained. They very much wax and wane over time, and too many couples will hit a ‘desolation’ and decide it is time to start over, to seek the thrill somewhere else.
This is terribly misguided and deeply harmful to any children as well as extended friends and family. Divorce doesn’t solve problems, it merely replaces them with different problems – and usually more and greater ones.
It is far better to take comfort in the proliferation of descendants and provide an example that will help produce more of them – modeling a good, healthy relationship for your children and (eventually) grandchildren.
That, and the annual viewing of Moulin Rouge are all you really need.
Chateau Lloyd 
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