Why Long-Married Couples Deserve Love Stories Too

Most romance novels end right around the time things get interesting.

The couple finally gets together. They work through whatever misunderstanding, family drama, or spectacularly poor decision kept them apart for three hundred pages. There's a declaration of love, maybe a wedding, and we close the book knowing they're going to live happily ever after.

Which is wonderful. I love a good happily ever after.

But I've always wondered why we don't spend more time talking about what happens afterward.