If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? S… - Nicholas Sparks

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that.

Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.