I loved the dialogue and the blantant challenge, "Stop, just stop. Don’t love me like that. What happens after the last page?... ... we’d drop off, we'd end. Love isn’t static, it doesn’t continue in a flat line. Who can carry the same tune for years?”

Very well stated, indeed.

And, the final points of how to be loved:

"...if you have to love me, ...[l]ove me when I’m cursing at the GPS because it took me to the-middle-of-nowhere when I clearly said ...California. Love me when I’m ... in wrinkled jeans and a stained shirt that I Febreezed and called clean. Love me when I forgot what you said, forgot your birthday and remembered the stats of the last game.... Love me then.



And, how love:

"I’ll love you when you’re sitting in the middle of a million shoes complaining that none will work. I’ll love you when you forget to check the oil, forgot to fill the gas tank, forgot to roll up the windows when you parked. I’ll love you when you burn dinner, when you won’t get off the phone, when you cry at a movie you’ve seen twenty times before."


I found your tale exceptionally worded, to say the least.

This is one of my favorites from you.

I love how the whole thing is "quotes".
That makes it all the better, and I have to agree with the boy(?). That no one should love like people do in books.
Because there's never really a "happy ever after", look at Cinderella. She had three Disney movies.

I think my favourite lines are at the end. With loving like the tides and the moon. Because you really do have to love people when they "wax and wane" and during the "low tides and during the high" because otherwise you never really see those people. Love isn't about changing people to be what you want them to be. It's about accepting and loving their faults.

Amazing as always hun