He reaches now.

That is the whole of what we learned, and I think it is the whole of what anyone can learn: you will never stop falling out of step with the person you love.

Forty years or four, you will step on each other until the day you die.

The marriages that make it are not the ones that never stumble.

They are the ones where somebody, every single time, no matter how cold it’s gotten or how long the silence has run, is willing to be the one who reaches back down and says: come on.