Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

The image contrasts two modes of sustaining love. At times love arrives as an external gift—like rain—felt as sudden abundance, shared delight, and emotional “soaking.” Yet life’s pressures (“angry heat”) can evaporate that surface feeling: passion, ease, and visible tenderness may thin out. The quote argues that enduring love then depends on what is less visible: roots—habits of care, patience, commitment, and the quiet work of tending a relationship when it is not effortlessly pleasurable. In this reading, love is not only an emotion but a practice of maintenance, drawing strength from deeper sources when circumstances make the surface dry.