A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead. . Andrew Sean Greer
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The concept of a lover existing only in fragments is a common theme in literature. The idea that we create the person we wish him to be is one of the ways we manifest our love for another. We can laugh and cry along with someone and still feel like they exist only in fragments. This is because we make up who they are and what they do.

One of the most powerful ways we can do this is through storytelling. Remind yourself of your significant other by telling their story.

Source: The Story Of A Marriage

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