Does true love last forever?

True love has little to do with first kisses, and romantic candlelit dinners and more to do with looking forward to seeing your best friend at the end of a day filled with screaming children, carpools, and obnoxious bosses.
My husband and I have been together for 14 years and have 3 children and we have had our share of bumps along the road. We certainly don’t feel butterfly’s with every kiss but at the end of a good day or bad the thing I look forward to the most is discussing the day with my husband.
Most people have trouble distinguishing the difference between infatuation or lust and love. That tingle of excitement one gets at the very thought of another person, being terrified they will see you with food in your teeth or gunk in your nose is not love. Being able to get really turned on by someone you have had sex with thousands of times, that has put on 20lbs, and gone gray over the years, has morning breath, and eye boogers thats true love.
Don’t get me wrong were not always the best of friends either but love stands the test of time. It is common for people to convince themselves the person they love is responsible for unhappiness when faced with life’s pressures of raising children, paying the mortgage and a mountain of bills, disappointing careers or worse of all the monotony of day to day life. When people find themselves unhappy with the course of their life they immediately conclude that their significant other is responsible for their unhappiness. After all its easier to blame someone else for your shortcomings than to look inward.
True love will last forever when both parties involved are able to look at their relationship realistically and not as if it were a romantic comedy in progress. When you are able to accept one another’s annoying little habits, and recognize you have a few of your own. When you work together to achieve both long and short term goals and recognize happily ever after exists only in the interim.