Melinda French Gates

They're 87 and 85, right?

I love them.

They're very healthy and healthy.

You know, I have adult children who I've loved over a long period.

I have new granddaughters who are one in three, and I love them.

And they're like these new little people.

And I think of friendships.

You know, I have friendships still.

My best friend from high school, from the first day of high school, is still one of my closest friends.

I've learned that love is...

can be very, very mature, too, if you know yourself deeply and your partner knows themselves deeply and you can admit your faults and be willing to let the other person hold up the mirror as a reflection to you, right?

And I've learned that love absolutely takes...

Trust, absolute trust.

And if you have that deep trust, both partners can grow individually and together.

And then also trust leads to intimacy.

And so, you know, I don't believe there's anything called perfect love.

I believe that we all make mistakes and it's important to trust.

you know, have say if you've made a mistake and then be held accountable.

I said something to my youngest daughter this weekend.

We were talking on the phone that afterwards I just kind of regretted.