Falling in love is exciting, it's a rush, it's new, it's like the start of an adventure. It's great - sure. Difficult to find someone to fall in love with, but easy to fall so! And it is filled with absolute grand gestures.

But then, staying in love, now that is different.

It's insanely more complex. It's boring, it's tedious. Sometimes frustrating, but it's home, it's where you know you can come back to and just sit together quietly, not say a word, and still find it comforting. It's difficult, because you need to recognise when to..

..give space, when to give a massage and when to probe. You need to be able to accept the lows just as well as the highs, but never let the lows get to you. Staying in love is filled with the smallest of gestures that show you're in each other's minds all the time.

It's like a rocket journey to the moon. The first few hrs are all hyperactive with the launch and acceleration to escape velocity. But, once in orbit, it's one long, quiet, boring, beautiful journey all the way to the moon. And the journey is worth living for.