6 Non-negotiables for love

I walked through fire so you don't have to.

I just turned sixty last week, so this sentence—“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”—kept rattling around in my brain as my love and I wended our way through the narrow medinas of Morocco, where we’d traveled to celebrate the end of my sixth decade.

Søren Kierkegaard wrote that sentence. He famously broke off an engagem…