Romantic love is a poor basis for marriage jrp

Do you believe romantic love is a poor basis for marriage? I sure hope so because in my opinion, there are many other important values you need in a marriage for it to be a success. Romantic love is only a couple of the threads that keep two people together. The foundation of a successful marriage includes commitment, mutual respect and love, friendship, and honesty.
Any person yearning for a successful relationship or marriage has to value commitment. Commitment is devoting yourself to only the person you are with and having plans of staying with that person. Commitment is what causes many marriages, successful or not, to stick together and hang on. The devotion involved in commitment for a successful marriage is a two-way street. Both people in the marriage need to have the same plans on staying together and working through their problems. I can’t stress enough, how important commitment is in any relationship throughout life. A relationship cannot and will not survive without equal devotion to one another.
Mutual respect and love for one another in a relationship is a very blissful value. Knowing that a person respects and loves you the same way you respect and love them is one of the greatest feelings to ever experience. It is vital in any relationship or marriage to know and practice this value. For example, a wife comes home from a long day at work with a migraine and her husband takes care of her and comforts her. If it were the other way around would it make sense for the wife not to take care of and comfort her husband? No, when you look at it that way it puts it in a very blunt and simple perspective. In this situation, their mutual respect and love for one another would cause them to only respect and love each other more. If the wife didn’t do the same thing her husband did for her, he would feel the unequal balance in their marriage and they would be in strife.
Having a friendship with the person you are in a relationship or marriage with is very