“To be friends first. To honestly and genuinely like the person that you marry, aside from all the love and romance and other details. Because if you don’t, she said, ‘when the fights come, and they will, how will you remember that you love him when you don’t even like him?’ ” Lily.”

“To be friends first. To honestly and genuinely like the person that you marry, aside from all the love and romance and other details. Because if you don’t, she said, ‘when the fights come, and they will, how will you remember that you love him when you don’t even like him?’ ” Lily.”

— Rebecca Connolly