LETTER TO MY FIANCÉ

My dear fiancé,

In the near future, I would take you to the altar. You would be my wife, and I would be your husband. This journey is forever till death do us part. People have their conceptions about love, I want to share mine with you. It would aid us in this wonderful journey.

Love is a story. A story has five main elements, and they are viz: a plot, characters, conflict, setting, and theme. Love has these elements too.

The two of us, plus God are the major characters in our love story - the protagonists of the story. We determine if it is a happily-ever after story or happily-never after story. There are other characters, family, friends, etc, their role in the marriage should be limited. we shouldn't allow the bad ones, the antagonists, encroach into our lives and destroy the love we have.

The plot of our love story, describes how we live our lives, what happens to us and the meaning of events. In life different events occur, that may threaten our bond, e.g. tragedies, misunderstandings, sickness, etc. When bad times come we should know it is for better for worse, in sickness and health. We have to believe in ourselves.

With plot comes conflict. They may be physical, emotional, or ethical, that may create some tension, we have to resolve this together, marriage is a road, filled with bumps, potholes and ditches. We have to careful navigate ourselves out of the storms of life, and come out together, whole.

The setting is the immediate environment and time we find ourselves, the world we live in. the internal and external environment has its strain on marriage, e.g. divorce is the order of the day, it is easy to take the easy way out when things are difficult, but we should work through our difficulties.

The theme is the major idea of the story, our theme is God, because God is love, he gives the marriage length and our love breath. He teaches us the way to love, we make God the driver and he leads us. We run to him in all difficulties. If we follow the way he says we should go,our love would last.

Hugs and kisses. Love you to pieces.

Your husband.