What's Love Got to Do With It?

    I have said in my profile that I co-habit with one.  That one is Carlos.  I have said nothing about him yet, because as we know there are a million different things that we can say about our significant others' depending on the day or on our mood.  I will try to be as fair as possible! AHA!
     Carlos and I have been together for 6 years.  He is the father of my beautiful boys Alex & Aiden and the dad to my other children Will, Joey, & Olivia.  If there is one thing that I could say about him is that he is a wonderful father.  He treats them like they are all his.  And any one with kids can tell you is that's hard to find. 
     Carlos & I have a difficult relationship just like everyone else out there.  I am only honest enough to say it.  There have been extreme highs & extreme lows.  There have been beautiful moments, love, betrayal, infidelity, make-ups, break-ups, the whole nine yards. 
     Why do we stay together?  Everyone in our families ask us that all time.  Jokingly, we say that no one is going to put up with the other as well as we do.  Is it love?  Is it the kids?  I could say that it is convenience, but I would be lying.  Carlos & I are as different as night & day, vinegar & water.  Those differences kill us, but at the same time they are what make us dynamic.  Where he is strong, I am weak and where I am strong, he is weak. 
     You know why we are still together even though we drive each other insane? It is because we got together at the right time in our lives.  I have survived 4 divorces and he has survived many relationships (I am the first that has lasted over a year.)  Everyone in the world takes marriage for granted (I know that I did.)  We decided to stay together for better or worse, richer or poorer.  We gave our lives to the Lord & with that to each other.  So what's love got to do with it? Maybe everything; maybe nothing at all. 

Today we can't stand each other, in the morning we'll be kissing.  I guess that's just the way I like it.