This last year has shown me how hard intimate relationships are; constantly challenged by each other but committed to being a family. I find in my marriage I am constantly reaching the capacity of what I can handle and then finding the other side, certain that all I can be sure of is my feet on my path. Here is a piece from a book I’m reading and rereading Intimacy and Solitude by Stephanie Dowrick ‘we need in love to practice only this, letting go. For holding on comes easily, we do not need to learn it.’

April