flawed.

Today I will refer you over to The Pioneer Woman.  Please read her post on butter, but more importantly...read the part about the missing diamond.

"I don’t need to stinkin’ diamond to know that my marriage is strong. What is in a diamond, anyway? I’d rather embrace real life. And when you think about it, this is really the perfect analogy for marriage: it may be flawed, it make lose some of its sparkle from time to time, but the foundation–the ring, the structure, the core–remains intact." (Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman)