Since we've had an opportunity to talk together over the past few months, (Name) and (name), you might think I would soon run out of words of advice. You should know by now that this is one thing parents have in unlimited quantity!

Yet what I'm going to say is not really advice; a hope you will see it (or should I say hear it) as good news.

We all remember the fairy tales in which the prince married the beautiful princess. After the ceremony, they rode off to his castle to "live happily ever after." Many of the modern romances in books and movies are described and pictured until the day after the wedding. Then, we are to assume, the couple lives forever in a state of wedded bliss.

You are both mature and wise enough to know that everlasting ecstasy does not follow on the heels of the we…