Sticking together

The best relationships are where two people grow individually but together.

Like two buildings that stand on their own ground yet share the same skyline. Different heights, different details, different purposes. Yet together, they create something neither could alone: a neighborhood and a sense of place.

The temptation, always, is to mistake enduring for old or boring.

Someone new always looks better because they haven't disappointed you yet.

Victorian buildings are still standing tall because someone kept maintaining them. Kept repairing them and choosing restoration over replacement. Because someone kept showing up.

How beautiful it is to stay loyal while someone changes. To watch them stand tall and slowly become an even better version of themselves.

All because you chose to stay.