The Couple's Workbook: Homework to Help Love LastTherapeutic exercises to help couples nurture patience, forgiveness, and humor. Love is a skill, not just an emotion and in order for us to get good at it, we have to practice, as we would in any other area we want to shine in. Many of us expect our romantic relationships to be like fairy tale romances; but realistically, after a heady and passion filled start, we end up in unions that are a confusing tangle of hope, distance, boredom, loyalty, and