Love Lost and Found

The following is excerpted from a beautiful article appearing in the Wall Street Journal last week:

In the late winter of 1999, Amy and I filed for divorce.

As is obvious, we never followed through on the paperwork. This weekend, in fact, we are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary. And based on how close we've grown in the past seven years, I have no doubt we'll be together for the duration.

A near-divorce will do that to you: make you recalibrate your life and work in a
way that allows you to see what really matters with a renewed passion. But we did separate for a while, and it's in that separation -- that near-divorce -- that the moral of today's story rests.

And here's the punch line: Love never dies; it just gets lost behind life's debris, including the money and the career, that we pack in front of it.

See the full article here.