"Monkey see, monkey do." We need examples to learn, yet when it comes to GREAT Relationships most people have reported to me that they actually don't know what GR's look like in real life examples. So this project is designed for just that purpose.

The GREAT Relationship (GR) Masters are:
1. Couples who have not only made it long-term, but have made it well show us a certain level of mastery; and/or
2. Couples who demonstrate key GR principles.

September 22, 2023

19/52 GR Masters: “Do you love me?” Tevye and Golde

September 22, 2023/ Jonathan Sherman

True, real, committed love is more than feelings, romance, and passion. While I love all of that, those tend to not have the staying power we all long for: A deep, life-long love based on sacrifice, service, kindness, growing, supporting, and being there through thick and thin, better and worse.

In the play Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye, a Russian Jew steeped in tradition, is struggling with accepting his daughter’s modern notion of romance and marrying the one you love. He and his wife, Golde, had a traditional arranged marriage where practicality, not love, was not the primary consideration. Tevye, though, begins to wonder if, after all these years, his wife loves him…?

And from this we get a tremendous, beautiful, and touching example of what REAL love actually is.