Endurance

A wife was to be endured. Men learned that from television, she thought.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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If we think of endure as related to endurance as opposed to giving up, then maybe enduring a relationship is a good thing. Ideally there is more to it than just to endure it. I'm not the boss of you, so if you are with someone just as someone to endure, but as someone with whom to mature. If you are just enduring, I suspect you aren't learning or growing. 

Like I said, I'm not the boss of you. If I was, you'd probably give me a pretty nice Boss's Day card, though.