Your partner is not perfect. Neither are you. Wabi-sabi in relationships means loving the actual person — with their irritating habits, their recurring failures, their stubborn imperfections — rather than the idealised version you thought you were marrying. The cracks in a relationship, like the cracks in a tea bowl, can become the most beautiful part — if you repair them with care rather than contempt.

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