THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE
I don't know the record of the woman, but the man knows certainly now that his was only an infatuation, which would probably not have lasted, since he is married ideally to another now, and he thinks for eternity.
So do not be too sure of your love because it chanced to be love at first sight. Sometimes two people seem to attract each other so powerfully and immediately that life without the other seems impossible.
Sometimes they are married people, and they desert husband and wife respectively for the new affinity. And in a year or so, more or less, they see that it was all a mistake.
Some of the most lasting cases of true love I have known, resulting in ideal marriage, have not been the result of love at first sight. I do not say that there has not been an attraction from the first, but it was not recognized as love or anything like it.
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