Peaks and Valleys. I have been using that analogy for years at work and in a marriage prep class my W and I taught at our church. (Alannis that is Ironic)
I am a financial advisor and if you look at a picture of the market, what does it do? It goes thru peaks and valleys but the slope is consistently positive over the long term. When is the best time to add more to your investment? When is it the hardest to invest more? Why is it hard when things are bleak? You have to detach. You can't just keep having mountain top experiences without going thru a valley. It doesn't go down forever (abyss) and it doesn't go straight up without stopping. That's life. That's marriage. That's work. So you have to invest (love) more when things are down to get a better return on your investment (you). You have to do the work but you are not alone or without help. You can handle it.
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M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.