I’ve been with my partner for 15 years. He’s kind, loving and appreciative. He’s also funny, smart and entertaining. He works at being a good partner and so do I.

If you think you don’t need to tell people you love them “because they know” you are missing the point of this well-written and insightful piece, IMO.

You need to continue to grow and be interested enough in others to be of interest to others. Becoming complacent and thinking you can stop challenging yourself will kill a relationship — no matter how fascinated you are with each other at the start.

People have affairs because their partners ignore them or don’t treat them with the same level of love and care as they did in the beginning. It’s also pretty dull to be with someone who doesn’t grow, evolve and surprise us now and then. I think that’s her point. And I thought she made it very well.