When I left for Idaho one of the things I was seeking the answer to was, what makes love last? How do people make it stick?
I kept crashing headfirst into the reality that it isn’t years that produce success; it isn’t stability that creates longevity. Finding out these were not the answers started to blow my world apart. I always believed these were secret ingredients that my millennial generation couldn’t grasp with our microwaves and fast-food upbringing.
Waiting to board my plane to Boise, I met a man with a bright red backpack; his stories had me leaning in with awe.
“I got divorced a few years ago. It took some time to get my stuff together after that, but now I just travel all the time.”
His pain was visible. I asked him what he did before he got divorced, before seeing the rainforest, kayaking in Belize, or…
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