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“Young love needs to keep dancing towards the future with immense hope.” (The Joy of Love, n.219)
Commentary
The vision of the wedding as the “happy ending” of a love story, in the style of the “and they lived happily ever after” with which some fairy tales and movies end, abounds.
The wedding thus becomes the final goal, the highest point of growth and expression of love. From that point on, it is no longer possible to love each other more and better. However, a wedding is not the end. Quite the contrary, it is the beginning. Of what? Of a special love. By loving each other as bride and groom, the spouses have decided to take a further and more significant step: that of being an intimate union of love and life. From now on and for the rest of their lives, that union is their essence: their identity as spouses.
If we have the joy of seeing our parents and grandparents united, loving and respecting each other, we will have a clear example that their wedding was not the destination but the starting point of being a union of life. We will learn that it is possible to make love grow even more from that point forward, which is indispensable to overcome difficulties. Maintaining our love young and expressing it in new forms of self-giving, embrace and service, new manifestations of patience and kindness with one another, and intimate trust and companionship is possible no matter the stage or situation of life we may be going through. Those who love each other in this way are vaccinated against loneliness and inner emptiness.
