Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.