Warded
Passion for life is not the same thing as passion for a person. It wasn't me you were passionate about but the circumstances and I accept that. It would be hard to think that you couldn't live without me after 10 minutes when you've lived your entire life without me.
Passion for life isn't very different than sharing one's happiness with someone. I think that's why more important than passionate love affairs that crash and burn after the initial shine wears off.
Do you always give up so easily? Your brother, last night, now. That doesn't seem a Gryffindor trait.
Also I'm going to call bullshit on your friend having the fairytale marriage. No one has a family, a marriage, children and has the fairytale marriage. No one goes through the birth of a child, spends sleepless nights and doesn't lose his or her temper. No one goes through life without problems at work. There is a reason that fairytales end with the wedding, because everyday life isn't a fairytale. There are fights, there are good days and bad days. A marriage that works isn't one where you expect the fairytale every day, but one where you work together and compromise, and get over the bad times together, and fight and then make up.