Still Thinking of Bertina (Tina)

What does a "relationship" take to succeed? Give and take? Tolerance? Sexual attraction? Sensual arousal? Understanding? Dreaming together? Touch? In touch, not out of touch? 

Love? What is that? Desire? Does that go on forever? Wanting...to...be...with? Liking? Liking everything about the other? Tolerating the rest? The same thought patterns? The same needs fulfilled?

When should a relationship die? When one or the other won't play "fair?" When one or the other won't "play?" When both won't make the effort? When love can't overcome self? 

And so it is -- and so it goes -- and so it hurts!